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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... references . ISBN 0-415-91382–9 — ISBN 0-415-91383–7 ( pbk . ) 1. Knowledge , Sociology of . 2. Postmodernism . I. Appleby , Joyce Oldham . 1996 BD175.K62 121 - dc20 95-35192 CIP Contents Acknowledgments / ix Timeline / xi Knowledge and ...
... references . ISBN 0-415-91382–9 — ISBN 0-415-91383–7 ( pbk . ) 1. Knowledge , Sociology of . 2. Postmodernism . I. Appleby , Joyce Oldham . 1996 BD175.K62 121 - dc20 95-35192 CIP Contents Acknowledgments / ix Timeline / xi Knowledge and ...
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... reference to Roman history , and using them all to gain assent to the radical concepts propagated by the philosophes . He said of the vaunted English Constitution that " it was noble for the dark and slavish times in which it was ...
... reference to Roman history , and using them all to gain assent to the radical concepts propagated by the philosophes . He said of the vaunted English Constitution that " it was noble for the dark and slavish times in which it was ...
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... reference for the cultural wars of our own time . Men , Voltaire commented , would not be free until the last priest had been strangled with the entrails of the last prince . ( Women presumably would have to await some further act of ...
... reference for the cultural wars of our own time . Men , Voltaire commented , would not be free until the last priest had been strangled with the entrails of the last prince . ( Women presumably would have to await some further act of ...
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... reference . Ethics had heretofore belonged to secular inquiry about proper behavior , while " spirit " had evoked either religious or poetic thoughts . Neither seemed appropriate for discussing capitalism , which referred to a system of ...
... reference . Ethics had heretofore belonged to secular inquiry about proper behavior , while " spirit " had evoked either religious or poetic thoughts . Neither seemed appropriate for discussing capitalism , which referred to a system of ...
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... reference points of land . Better understandings of magnetism also led to the use of more accurate compasses . Along with these improvements in navigation , improved cartographic techniques facilitated European voyages of exploration ...
... reference points of land . Better understandings of magnetism also led to the use of more accurate compasses . Along with these improvements in navigation , improved cartographic techniques facilitated European voyages of exploration ...
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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