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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... whole Enlightenment Project as a massive mystification generated by the wealthy few to justify the immiseration of the poverty - stricken many . His immediate task was to unmask the naturalrights philosophy , with its democratic ...
... whole Enlightenment Project as a massive mystification generated by the wealthy few to justify the immiseration of the poverty - stricken many . His immediate task was to unmask the naturalrights philosophy , with its democratic ...
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... whole effort of nature is to get rid of such , to clear the world of them , and make room for better . Progress is not an accident but a necessity , " a sentiment echoed by Sumner when he wrote that the " law of the survival of the ...
... whole effort of nature is to get rid of such , to clear the world of them , and make room for better . Progress is not an accident but a necessity , " a sentiment echoed by Sumner when he wrote that the " law of the survival of the ...
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... whole Enlightenment project on trial , giving to our era a name— postmodernism that advertises the distance we have travelled since Bacon framed his ambitious program around the curious investigator . Surveying the breakdown of ...
... whole Enlightenment project on trial , giving to our era a name— postmodernism that advertises the distance we have travelled since Bacon framed his ambitious program around the curious investigator . Surveying the breakdown of ...
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... whole gallery of icons : the credibility of reforms effected under the banner of Enlightenment , the independence of individual thinkers , the continuity of human efforts , the idea of progress . Wishing to reveal the arbitrary aspect ...
... whole gallery of icons : the credibility of reforms effected under the banner of Enlightenment , the independence of individual thinkers , the continuity of human efforts , the idea of progress . Wishing to reveal the arbitrary aspect ...
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... whole . This focus on unintended consequences of human action played a key role in future attempts to study society in terms of larger systemic processes and common principles independent of the actions of particular rulers or ...
... whole . This focus on unintended consequences of human action played a key role in future attempts to study society in terms of larger systemic processes and common principles independent of the actions of particular rulers or ...
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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