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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... Max Weber --1900 ( 1858-1942 ) ( 1844-1900 ) ( 1857-1913 ) ( 1864-1920 ) --present 1900 Ruth Benedict ( 1887-1948 ) Claude Lévi - Strauss ( 1908- ) Max Horkheimer ( 1895-1973 ) Theodor Adorno ( 1903-1969 ) Timeline /
... Max Weber --1900 ( 1858-1942 ) ( 1844-1900 ) ( 1857-1913 ) ( 1864-1920 ) --present 1900 Ruth Benedict ( 1887-1948 ) Claude Lévi - Strauss ( 1908- ) Max Horkheimer ( 1895-1973 ) Theodor Adorno ( 1903-1969 ) Timeline /
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... present a history is to tell a story . That is exactly what we will do . We have created a narrative that deliberately joins contemporary thought about knowledge to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century , the ...
... present a history is to tell a story . That is exactly what we will do . We have created a narrative that deliberately joins contemporary thought about knowledge to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century , the ...
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... present , and future . The expectation of positive improvement in the future denigrated both past and present . To a large extent , the past lost its attraction and the present became a mere springboard . Change became development ...
... present , and future . The expectation of positive improvement in the future denigrated both past and present . To a large extent , the past lost its attraction and the present became a mere springboard . Change became development ...
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... present might finally sweep away the fallacies and injustices of the past . NOTES 1. Norman Hampson , The Enlightenment ( New York : Penguin Books , 1968 ) , p . 38 . 2. Newton , as cited in I. Bernard Cohen , The Newtonian Revolution ...
... present might finally sweep away the fallacies and injustices of the past . NOTES 1. Norman Hampson , The Enlightenment ( New York : Penguin Books , 1968 ) , p . 38 . 2. Newton , as cited in I. Bernard Cohen , The Newtonian Revolution ...
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... present argument ; wherein my purpose is not to make a justification of the errors , but by a censure and separation of the errors to make a justification of that which is good and sound , and to deliver that from the aspersion of the ...
... present argument ; wherein my purpose is not to make a justification of the errors , but by a censure and separation of the errors to make a justification of that which is good and sound , and to deliver that from the aspersion of the ...
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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