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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... questions focused on the question of social development . How had a society moved from " traditional " forms of production and consumption to " modern " ones ? What were the implications of this change ? The writers of the Scottish ...
... questions focused on the question of social development . How had a society moved from " traditional " forms of production and consumption to " modern " ones ? What were the implications of this change ? The writers of the Scottish ...
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... question ) many vacant times of leisure , while he expecteth the tides and returns of business ( except he be either tedious and of no dispatch , or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others ) ...
... question ) many vacant times of leisure , while he expecteth the tides and returns of business ( except he be either tedious and of no dispatch , or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others ) ...
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... questions , which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit , but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality ... question as fast as it solveth another ; even as in the former resemblance , when you carry the light into one ...
... questions , which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit , but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality ... question as fast as it solveth another ; even as in the former resemblance , when you carry the light into one ...
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... questions embraced in these two sciences , that in the two or three months I devoted to their examination , not only did I reach solutions of questions I had formerly deemed exceedingly difficult , but even as regards questions of the ...
... questions embraced in these two sciences , that in the two or three months I devoted to their examination , not only did I reach solutions of questions I had formerly deemed exceedingly difficult , but even as regards questions of the ...
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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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