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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... relation between the sexes , and the public values in the United States . Sociology had gained its first and most classic expression in Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Looking back , one can see that from rather modest seventeenth ...
... relation between the sexes , and the public values in the United States . Sociology had gained its first and most classic expression in Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Looking back , one can see that from rather modest seventeenth ...
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... relation to the practical enactments of their own society . Uncivilized peoples had culture ; modern Western ones ... relationship between a sound and the object that it seeks to represent is entirely arbitrary , but once it is ...
... relation to the practical enactments of their own society . Uncivilized peoples had culture ; modern Western ones ... relationship between a sound and the object that it seeks to represent is entirely arbitrary , but once it is ...
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... relationship between mathematical 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 ...
... relationship between mathematical 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 ...
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... relation of antecedence and sequence . And the last , in every case to make enumerations so complete , and reviews ... relations or proportions subsisting among those objects , I thought it best for my purpose to consider these ...
... relation of antecedence and sequence . And the last , in every case to make enumerations so complete , and reviews ... relations or proportions subsisting among those objects , I thought it best for my purpose to consider these ...
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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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