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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... HAYDEN WHITE / 393 The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality 395 MICHEL FOUCAULT / 408 What Is Enlightenment ? / 410 The History of Sexuality / 418 JACQUES DERRIDA / 435 Structure , Sign , and Play Contents VII.
... HAYDEN WHITE / 393 The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality 395 MICHEL FOUCAULT / 408 What Is Enlightenment ? / 410 The History of Sexuality / 418 JACQUES DERRIDA / 435 Structure , Sign , and Play Contents VII.
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... reality . Accompanying this major intellectual transformation were startling changes in the material world as seventeenth - century merchants created patterns of exchange that linked the newly - explored parts of the globe with ...
... reality . Accompanying this major intellectual transformation were startling changes in the material world as seventeenth - century merchants created patterns of exchange that linked the newly - explored parts of the globe with ...
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... reality as a check on the self - serving opinions about the world that human beings loved to spin . Nature , he said , fought back ; self - flattering notions collapsed if they failed to account for the reality outside human contrivance ...
... reality as a check on the self - serving opinions about the world that human beings loved to spin . Nature , he said , fought back ; self - flattering notions collapsed if they failed to account for the reality outside human contrivance ...
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... reality , the neutrality of their findings , and above all , the impartiality of their standards . From within strongholds of the modern West , there was a clear consensus during the nineteenth century that its knowledge came from the ...
... reality , the neutrality of their findings , and above all , the impartiality of their standards . From within strongholds of the modern West , there was a clear consensus during the nineteenth century that its knowledge came from the ...
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... reality , not reality , that we encounter when we speak and act . More concerned with language , Derrida has subjected the texts upon which Western civilization has relied for its understanding of the world to a process called ...
... reality , not reality , that we encounter when we speak and act . More concerned with language , Derrida has subjected the texts upon which Western civilization has relied for its understanding of the world to a process called ...
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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