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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Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider. representing the physical universe ... represent critical philosophical benchmarks along the path of our narrative . They are significant because they ...
Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider. representing the physical universe ... represent critical philosophical benchmarks along the path of our narrative . They are significant because they ...
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... represent the face of reality itself . For most Americans , nationalism lost its connection with ethnicity and attached itself to a universal destiny for mankind adumbrated in the Declaration of Independence . American universalism ...
... represent the face of reality itself . For most Americans , nationalism lost its connection with ethnicity and attached itself to a universal destiny for mankind adumbrated in the Declaration of Independence . American universalism ...
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... represent the reality of the physical and human worlds . Hitting the Enlightenment in its scientific solar plexus , Nietzsche scoffed at those from Bacon onward who had assumed that they had access to nature unmediated by subjective ...
... represent the reality of the physical and human worlds . Hitting the Enlightenment in its scientific solar plexus , Nietzsche scoffed at those from Bacon onward who had assumed that they had access to nature unmediated by subjective ...
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... representing eons of successful adaptation . Thus , despite the influential criticism of the West's scientistic culture by Marx and Nietzsche , Darwin's powerful and original scientific theory gave fresh life to the empirical approach ...
... representing eons of successful adaptation . Thus , despite the influential criticism of the West's scientistic culture by Marx and Nietzsche , Darwin's powerful and original scientific theory gave fresh life to the empirical approach ...
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... represent is entirely arbitrary , but once it is established , it remains fixed . The sign , for Saussure , combines a sound with an object of signification . Most importantly , the sign , or word , takes its meaning from other words in ...
... represent is entirely arbitrary , but once it is established , it remains fixed . The sign , for Saussure , combines a sound with an object of signification . Most importantly , the sign , or word , takes its meaning from other words in ...
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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