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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... Progress of the Human Mind / 112 ERNST CASSIRER / 123 Nature and Natural Science / 124 NINETEENTH - CENTURY SOCIAL THEORY Introduction 137 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE / 145 Democracy in America / 146 KARL MARX / 164 Preface to A Contribution ...
... Progress of the Human Mind / 112 ERNST CASSIRER / 123 Nature and Natural Science / 124 NINETEENTH - CENTURY SOCIAL THEORY Introduction 137 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE / 145 Democracy in America / 146 KARL MARX / 164 Preface to A Contribution ...
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... progress , and individual autonomy is often called . In this reader you will find writings that represent critical philosophical benchmarks along the path of our narrative . They are significant because they introduce or summarize key ...
... progress , and individual autonomy is often called . In this reader you will find writings that represent critical philosophical benchmarks along the path of our narrative . They are significant because they introduce or summarize key ...
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... progress . The engine of reform was going to be education , for the road to modern utopias generally ran through the classroom . A final defining element of Western liberalism was its positive orientation towards nature , an orientation ...
... progress . The engine of reform was going to be education , for the road to modern utopias generally ran through the classroom . A final defining element of Western liberalism was its positive orientation towards nature , an orientation ...
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... progress of the age . The traditional economies marked by customary practices , threats of famine , local trade , and the conspicuous spending of rulers , prelates , and noble families had finally yielded to commercial economies of ...
... progress of the age . The traditional economies marked by customary practices , threats of famine , local trade , and the conspicuous spending of rulers , prelates , and noble families had finally yielded to commercial economies of ...
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... progress which capitalism had wrought - Marx presented his improved science of society as believable because it had been cleansed of the self - serving explanations of an exploiting ruling class . He replaced the Scots ' conjectural ...
... progress which capitalism had wrought - Marx presented his improved science of society as believable because it had been cleansed of the self - serving explanations of an exploiting ruling class . He replaced the Scots ' conjectural ...
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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