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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... thought about knowledge to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century , the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , the grand social theorizing of the nineteenth century , and the growing skepticism about objective truths ...
... thought about knowledge to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century , the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , the grand social theorizing of the nineteenth century , and the growing skepticism about objective truths ...
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... thought , pushed as it had been by Darwin's natural determinism yet compelled to take account of the profusion of ... thoughts . Neither seemed appropriate for discussing capitalism , which referred to a system of exploiting labor , land ...
... thought , pushed as it had been by Darwin's natural determinism yet compelled to take account of the profusion of ... thoughts . Neither seemed appropriate for discussing capitalism , which referred to a system of exploiting labor , land ...
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... thought , he wanted to explain how things happened as well as how the interpretation of those happenings entered into social action . His The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was actually a concrete example of how a system ...
... thought , he wanted to explain how things happened as well as how the interpretation of those happenings entered into social action . His The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was actually a concrete example of how a system ...
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Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider. The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Thought AND ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT.
Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider. The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Thought AND ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT.
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... thought produced valid conclusions for others as well . In many ways the work of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588-1679 ) and John Locke ( 1632-1704 ) reveals two different versions of a common approach to the connections between scientific thinking ...
... thought produced valid conclusions for others as well . In many ways the work of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588-1679 ) and John Locke ( 1632-1704 ) reveals two different versions of a common approach to the connections between scientific thinking ...
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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