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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... THEORY Introduction 137 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE / 145 Democracy in America / 146 KARL MARX / 164 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy / 165 The Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 / 168 The Communist Manifesto ...
... THEORY Introduction 137 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE / 145 Democracy in America / 146 KARL MARX / 164 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy / 165 The Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 / 168 The Communist Manifesto ...
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... THEORY : The Emergence of the Culture Concept and the Sociology of Science Introduction / 259 JOHN DEWEY / 265 Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The ...
... THEORY : The Emergence of the Culture Concept and the Sociology of Science Introduction / 259 JOHN DEWEY / 265 Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The ...
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... theory of the earth's revolution around the sun and Galileo's use of the telescope to confirm this theory were not threatening to everything they held dear . When Francis Bacon began urging his king and fellow Englishmen to look upon ...
... theory of the earth's revolution around the sun and Galileo's use of the telescope to confirm this theory were not threatening to everything they held dear . When Francis Bacon began urging his king and fellow Englishmen to look upon ...
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... theory which both reflected and encouraged social theories about the importance of individual competition for the progress of the whole . Later dubbed " the survival of the fittest , " this explanation of the slow evolution of man from ...
... theory which both reflected and encouraged social theories about the importance of individual competition for the progress of the whole . Later dubbed " the survival of the fittest , " this explanation of the slow evolution of man from ...
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... theory which both reflected and encouraged social theories about the importance of individual competition for the progress of the whole. Later dubbed “the survival of the fittest,” this explanation of the slow evolution of man from ...
... theory which both reflected and encouraged social theories about the importance of individual competition for the progress of the whole. Later dubbed “the survival of the fittest,” this explanation of the slow evolution of man from ...
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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