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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... true and the beautiful , political authority , and the relations between past , present , and future . Such concepts form the foundations of the building of knowledge ; they hold the edifice up , but are hidden from sight . It will be ...
... true and the beautiful , political authority , and the relations between past , present , and future . Such concepts form the foundations of the building of knowledge ; they hold the edifice up , but are hidden from sight . It will be ...
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... true calling as the creators of value rather than the alienated producers of marketable goods for a world gone mad over commodities . A different critique of the modern world came from Frederich Nietzsche , another German disenchanted ...
... true calling as the creators of value rather than the alienated producers of marketable goods for a world gone mad over commodities . A different critique of the modern world came from Frederich Nietzsche , another German disenchanted ...
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... 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 hath framed the mind of man as a mirror ...
... 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 hath framed the mind of man as a mirror ...
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... true use ; and thinking that they but contributed to the advancement of the mechanical arts , I was astonished that foundations , so strong and solid , should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them . On the other hand , I ...
... true use ; and thinking that they but contributed to the advancement of the mechanical arts , I was astonished that foundations , so strong and solid , should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them . On the other hand , I ...
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... true from the false , in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life , and proceed in it with confidence . It is true that , while busied only in considering the manners of other men , I found here , too ...
... true from the false , in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life , and proceed in it with confidence . It is true that , while busied only in considering the manners of other men , I found here , too ...
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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