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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... things beautiful , or decent , in the true return of their seasons : Also he hath placed the world in man's heart , yet cannot man find out the work which God worketh from the beginning to the end : declaring not obscurely , that God ...
... things beautiful , or decent , in the true return of their seasons : Also he hath placed the world in man's heart , yet cannot man find out the work which God worketh from the beginning to the end : declaring not obscurely , that God ...
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... thing very improbable : we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians , which commonly ... things are in their nature demonstrative , and what are conjectural , and as well the use of distinctions and ...
... thing very improbable : we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians , which commonly ... things are in their nature demonstrative , and what are conjectural , and as well the use of distinctions and ...
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... things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason ) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned ; and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant ...
... things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason ) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned ; and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant ...
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... things of which they are ignorant . For these reasons , as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors , I entirely abandoned the study of letters , and resolved no longer to seek any other science than ...
... things of which they are ignorant . For these reasons , as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors , I entirely abandoned the study of letters , and resolved no longer to seek any other science than ...
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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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