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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... speak language , say the postmodernists ; language speaks us , imposing as it does a particular logic , aesthetics , and morality , or as Foucault would say , a discourse . Discourses , not impartial scientific investigations , define ...
... speak language , say the postmodernists ; language speaks us , imposing as it does a particular logic , aesthetics , and morality , or as Foucault would say , a discourse . Discourses , not impartial scientific investigations , define ...
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... speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied ... speak with the tongues of men and angels , but because , if it be severed from charity , and not referred to the ...
... speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied ... speak with the tongues of men and angels , but because , if it be severed from charity , and not referred to the ...
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... speak , matter of fact ; or else of matter of art and opinion . As to the former , we see the experience and inconvenience of this error in ecclesiastical history ; which hath too easily received and registered reports and narrations of ...
... speak , matter of fact ; or else of matter of art and opinion . As to the former , we see the experience and inconvenience of this error in ecclesiastical history ; which hath too easily received and registered reports and narrations of ...
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... speak only in the language of Lower Brittany , and be wholly ignorant of the 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 ...
... speak only in the language of Lower Brittany , and be wholly ignorant of the 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 ...
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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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