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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... social sciences raised expectations that were not - perhaps could not be met . When we reach the end of the twentieth century , and the end of this text , we find scholars withdrawing from the outward - looking search for causes in ...
... social sciences raised expectations that were not - perhaps could not be met . When we reach the end of the twentieth century , and the end of this text , we find scholars withdrawing from the outward - looking search for causes in ...
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... social action . Prior to the eighteenth century , events were variously attributed to Providence - that is , God's personal interference in human affairs - or contingencies , like the outbreak of plague or the invasion of a foreign army ...
... social action . Prior to the eighteenth century , events were variously attributed to Providence - that is , God's personal interference in human affairs - or contingencies , like the outbreak of plague or the invasion of a foreign army ...
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... social action , radical thinkers came to believe that the 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 ...
... social action , radical thinkers came to believe that the 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 ...
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... social processes , Tocqueville came to the United States in 1833 in order to study the effect of " the condition of equality . " Certain that democracy would soon triumph in all of Europe , and by no means thrilled by this prospect , he ...
... social processes , Tocqueville came to the United States in 1833 in order to study the effect of " the condition of equality . " Certain that democracy would soon triumph in all of Europe , and by no means thrilled by this prospect , he ...
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... social , political , and spiritual processes of life . It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence , but , on the contrary , their social existence determines their consciousness . " 8 Embodying much of the ...
... social , political , and spiritual processes of life . It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence , but , on the contrary , their social existence determines their consciousness . " 8 Embodying much of the ...
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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