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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... practical consequences . In their eyes , rigorous examination , systematic experimentation , and vigorous debate among all comers would do a better job of verifying knowledge than formal systems of logic or the objectification of social ...
... practical consequences . In their eyes , rigorous examination , systematic experimentation , and vigorous debate among all comers would do a better job of verifying knowledge than formal systems of logic or the objectification of social ...
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... practical enactments of their own society . Uncivilized peoples had culture ; modern Western ones followed reason . Convinced of the centrality of values in making coherent social action possible , America's leading social scientist ...
... practical enactments of their own society . Uncivilized peoples had culture ; modern Western ones followed reason . Convinced of the centrality of values in making coherent social action possible , America's leading social scientist ...
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... practical actions — whether one ate food cooked or raw , for instance - Lévi - Strauss greatly expanded what could be considered cultural and therefore part of the anthropological domain . Yet despite his wide - ranging curiosity about ...
... practical actions — whether one ate food cooked or raw , for instance - Lévi - Strauss greatly expanded what could be considered cultural and therefore part of the anthropological domain . Yet despite his wide - ranging curiosity about ...
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... practical moment , and followed by no consequences to himself , farther , perhaps , than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense ; requiring , as they must in this case , the exercise of greater ...
... practical moment , and followed by no consequences to himself , farther , perhaps , than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense ; requiring , as they must in this case , the exercise of greater ...
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Contents
29 | |
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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