Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical PerspectiveJoyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White, and the challenges their ideas have posed to our conventional ways of thinking, writing and knowing. |
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... political order from monarchies , its religion from established churches , and its understanding of human purpose from the Bible . Hierarchical , orthodox , and traditional , seventeenth - century Europeans feared change , and they were ...
... political order from monarchies , its religion from established churches , and its understanding of human purpose from the Bible . Hierarchical , orthodox , and traditional , seventeenth - century Europeans feared change , and they were ...
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... political corruption emanating from the industrial tycoons . For Dewey , pragmatism took on moral overtones as a philosophy that accepted the provisional nature of truth without abandoning belief in the reality science sought to know ...
... political corruption emanating from the industrial tycoons . For Dewey , pragmatism took on moral overtones as a philosophy that accepted the provisional nature of truth without abandoning belief in the reality science sought to know ...
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... Political and Economic Origins of Our Time ( Boston : Farrar & Rinehart , Inc. 1944 ) , p . iii . 6. Karl Loewith , Meaning in History ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1949 ) , p . vii . 7. Karl Marx , Capital , trans . Samuel ...
... Political and Economic Origins of Our Time ( Boston : Farrar & Rinehart , Inc. 1944 ) , p . iii . 6. Karl Loewith , Meaning in History ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1949 ) , p . vii . 7. Karl Marx , Capital , trans . Samuel ...
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... political authority as well . Using mathematical skills , Harvey was able to estimate the capacity of the heart and the number of its beats per day to determine the quantity of blood circulated through the body . These studies led him ...
... political authority as well . Using mathematical skills , Harvey was able to estimate the capacity of the heart and the number of its beats per day to determine the quantity of blood circulated through the body . These studies led him ...
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... political and social theories . In France , political theorizing became part of a widespread discontentment with traditional institutions . Writers like Montesquieu ( 1689–1755 ) , a judge and nobleman , attempted to improve the state ...
... political and social theories . In France , political theorizing became part of a widespread discontentment with traditional institutions . Writers like Montesquieu ( 1689–1755 ) , a judge and nobleman , attempted to improve the state ...
Contents
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JOHN LOCKE | 50 |
ADAM SMITH | 61 |
IMMANUEL KANT | 105 |
ERNST CASSIRER | 123 |
Introduction | 137 |
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE | 145 |
KARL MARX | 164 |
JOHN DEWEY | 265 |
RUTH BENEDICT | 279 |
CLAUDE LÉVISTRAUSS | 296 |
CLIFFORD GEERTZ | 309 |
MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ADORNO | 324 |
Introduction | 385 |
HAYDEN WHITE | 393 |
Introduction | 489 |
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE | 189 |
MAX WEBER | 213 |
NORMAN BIRNBAUM | 245 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 555 |
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