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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... 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 individual events . The Scottish Enlightenment , in this sense ...
... 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 individual events . The Scottish Enlightenment , in this sense ...
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... action according to nature , as agreeable to health of mind as exercise is to health of body , taking pleasure in the action itself , and not in the purchase : so that of all men they are the most indefatigable , if it be towards any ...
... action according to nature , as agreeable to health of mind as exercise is to health of body , taking pleasure in the action itself , and not in the purchase : so that of all men they are the most indefatigable , if it be towards any ...
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... action , so as the vulgar in small and ordinary points of action , so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgement of them in greater matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller .... I refer them also to that ...
... action , so as the vulgar in small and ordinary points of action , so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgement of them in greater matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller .... I refer them also to that ...
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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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