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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... the Modern Era from Nietzsche and Marx coincided with a scientific achievement that matched Newton's Principia . This was Charles Darwin's The Origins of Species , which appeared in 1859. A member of the Introduction 11.
... the Modern Era from Nietzsche and Marx coincided with a scientific achievement that matched Newton's Principia . This was Charles Darwin's The Origins of Species , which appeared in 1859. A member of the Introduction 11.
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... species replacing species and of global variations in species . Long awaited , Darwin's masterpiece swept into one grand synthesis decades of observation on the forms of life encoded in plants and animals , both fossil and living ...
... species replacing species and of global variations in species . Long awaited , Darwin's masterpiece swept into one grand synthesis decades of observation on the forms of life encoded in plants and animals , both fossil and living ...
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... Species gave scientific validation to other contemporary ideas about evolution. Here was progress marked out in the grandest scope imaginable. Change had long been recognized, but Darwin's made constant, regular variation and adaptation ...
... Species gave scientific validation to other contemporary ideas about evolution. Here was progress marked out in the grandest scope imaginable. Change had long been recognized, but Darwin's made constant, regular variation and adaptation ...
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... species . I will not hesitate , however , to avow my belief that it has been my singular good fortune to have very early in life fallen in with certain tracks which have conducted me to considerations and maxims , of which I have formed ...
... species . I will not hesitate , however , to avow my belief that it has been my singular good fortune to have very early in life fallen in with certain tracks which have conducted me to considerations and maxims , of which I have formed ...
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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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