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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... Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The Savage Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ / 309 Thick Description : Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / 310 MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ...
... Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The Savage Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ / 309 Thick Description : Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / 310 MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ...
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... scientific understanding of cause and effect relations to the affairs of human beings . Riding high in the nineteenth century , the social sciences raised expectations that were not - perhaps could not be met . When we reach the end of ...
... scientific understanding of cause and effect relations to the affairs of human beings . Riding high in the nineteenth century , the social sciences raised expectations that were not - perhaps could not be met . When we reach the end of ...
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... scientific revolution because it involved the radical idea of interrogating nature directly and forever changed how inquirers thought about reality . Accompanying this major intellectual transformation were startling changes in the ...
... scientific revolution because it involved the radical idea of interrogating nature directly and forever changed how inquirers thought about reality . Accompanying this major intellectual transformation were startling changes in the ...
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... scientific method was as applicable to the social order as it was to the physical universe . Reacting to this , conservatives defended those different rhythms of human life stemming from people's attachment to the familiar and their ...
... scientific method was as applicable to the social order as it was to the physical universe . Reacting to this , conservatives defended those different rhythms of human life stemming from people's attachment to the familiar and their ...
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... scientific solar plexus , Nietzsche scoffed at those from Bacon onward who had assumed that they had access to nature unmediated by subjective influences . He challenged their conviction that minds , like mirrors trained on objects ...
... scientific solar plexus , Nietzsche scoffed at those from Bacon onward who had assumed that they had access to nature unmediated by subjective influences . He challenged their conviction that minds , like mirrors trained on objects ...
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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