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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... rule of an absolute monarch over a kingdom , the publication of Harvey's discovery in the midst of a long struggle between King and Parliament added credence to the demands of republicans opposing the rule of a supreme monarch over the ...
... rule of an absolute monarch over a kingdom , the publication of Harvey's discovery in the midst of a long struggle between King and Parliament added credence to the demands of republicans opposing the rule of a supreme monarch over the ...
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... rules and axioms , or too immoderate and overweening by reason of the greatness of examples , or too incompatible and differing from the times by reason of the dissimilitude of examples ; or at least , that it doth divert men's travails ...
... rules and axioms , or too immoderate and overweening by reason of the greatness of examples , or too incompatible and differing from the times by reason of the dissimilitude of examples ; or at least , that it doth divert men's travails ...
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... rules . If it mislead by disproportion or dissimilitude of examples , it teacheth men the force of circumstances , the errors of comparisons , and all the cautions of application ; so that in all these it doth rectify more effectually ...
... rules . If it mislead by disproportion or dissimilitude of examples , it teacheth men the force of circumstances , the errors of comparisons , and all the cautions of application ; so that in all these it doth rectify more effectually ...
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... rules of rhetoric ; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies , and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony , are still the best poets , though unacquainted with the art of ...
... rules of rhetoric ; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies , and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony , are still the best poets , though unacquainted with the art of ...
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... rules and formulas , that there results an art full of confusion and obscurity calculated to embarrass , instead of a science fitted to cultivate the mind . By these considerations I was induced to seek some other method which would ...
... rules and formulas , that there results an art full of confusion and obscurity calculated to embarrass , instead of a science fitted to cultivate the mind . By these considerations I was induced to seek some other method which would ...
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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