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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... represent the external world , but postmodernists have denied that we have access to objects except through human paradigms and discourses . The social glue of language has become unstuck . Words are now presented as changelings and ...
... represent the external world , but postmodernists have denied that we have access to objects except through human paradigms and discourses . The social glue of language has become unstuck . Words are now presented as changelings and ...
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... representing such a nature ? Our reliance on posts , as in postindustrial or postmodern , to locate ourselves in cultural times indicates that we still identify ourselves through old beliefs . We have not so much rejected modern values ...
... representing such a nature ? Our reliance on posts , as in postindustrial or postmodern , to locate ourselves in cultural times indicates that we still identify ourselves through old beliefs . We have not so much rejected modern values ...
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... superior West representing eons of successful adaptation. Thus, despite the influential criticism of the West's scientistic culture by Marx and Nietzsche, Darwin's powerful and original scientific theory gave fresh life.
... superior West representing eons of successful adaptation. Thus, despite the influential criticism of the West's scientistic culture by Marx and Nietzsche, Darwin's powerful and original scientific theory gave fresh life.
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... represent unto them . And thus much for the second disease of learning . 8. For the third vice or disease of learning , which concerneth deceit or untruth , it is of all the rest the foulest ; as that which doth destroy the essential ...
... represent unto them . And thus much for the second disease of learning . 8. For the third vice or disease of learning , which concerneth deceit or untruth , it is of all the rest the foulest ; as that which doth destroy the essential ...
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... represent the truth , and that such as regulate their conduct by examples drawn from this source , are apt to fall into the extravagances of the knight - errants of romance , and to entertain projects that exceed their powers . I ...
... represent the truth , and that such as regulate their conduct by examples drawn from this source , are apt to fall into the extravagances of the knight - errants of romance , and to entertain projects that exceed their powers . I ...
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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