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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... reason . Cogito ergo sum , " I think therefore I am , " was his enduringly quotable statement that reason was the essence of humanity . From this radical subjectivity , Descartes divided the world between human beings who had volition ...
... reason . Cogito ergo sum , " I think therefore I am , " was his enduringly quotable statement that reason was the essence of humanity . From this radical subjectivity , Descartes divided the world between human beings who had volition ...
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... reason " and to " the universal order of things . " When Jefferson later wrote in the Declaration of Independence that " we hold these truths to be self - evident that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their creator ...
... reason " and to " the universal order of things . " When Jefferson later wrote in the Declaration of Independence that " we hold these truths to be self - evident that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their creator ...
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... reason and natural order . The purposefulness imposed by the imperatives of progress placed a high premium on instrumental reasoning and utilitarian justifications , both enemies to the free play of imagination and the arbitrary ...
... reason and natural order . The purposefulness imposed by the imperatives of progress placed a high premium on instrumental reasoning and utilitarian justifications , both enemies to the free play of imagination and the arbitrary ...
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... reason is not the same as denying reason's role in human affairs . As Joseph Rouse so aptly put it , " the world is always interpreted through language and practice . An uninterpreted world would be unintelligible . But the ...
... reason is not the same as denying reason's role in human affairs . As Joseph Rouse so aptly put it , " the world is always interpreted through language and practice . An uninterpreted world would be unintelligible . But the ...
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... reason and experimental observation , a relationship that had been building since the middle of the previous century . Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ) and Johannes Kepler ( 1571-1630 ) applied mathematics to observation and provided ...
... reason and experimental observation , a relationship that had been building since the middle of the previous century . Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ) and Johannes Kepler ( 1571-1630 ) applied mathematics to observation and provided ...
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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