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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... productions - whether in literature or law - making or scientific theory - authors bring to their subjects the ... production in the modern West . A very convenient and psychologically satisfying way to present a history is to tell ...
... productions - whether in literature or law - making or scientific theory - authors bring to their subjects the ... production in the modern West . A very convenient and psychologically satisfying way to present a history is to tell ...
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... production in material life , " he wrote uncompromisingly , " determines the general character of the social , political , and spiritual processes of life . It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence , but , on ...
... production in material life , " he wrote uncompromisingly , " determines the general character of the social , political , and spiritual processes of life . It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence , but , on ...
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... production fit nicely with his concern for revitalizing American democracy , which had foundered under the racist attacks against immigrants and the political corruption emanating from the industrial tycoons . For Dewey , pragmatism ...
... production fit nicely with his concern for revitalizing American democracy , which had foundered under the racist attacks against immigrants and the political corruption emanating from the industrial tycoons . For Dewey , pragmatism ...
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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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