Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Appleby, Joyce; Sneider, Allison; Latham, Michael; Hoyt, David; Covington, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136664359
• Artikelnr.: 59241506

Autorenporträt

Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, MichaelLatham and Allison Sneider are all in the History department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Joyce Appleby's most recent publications include Tellingthe Truth about History (1994) and Liberalism andRepublicanism in the Historical Imagination.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Timeline
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
Introduction
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT
Introduction
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning/RENE DESCARTES
Discourse on Method/JOHN LOCKE
Essay Concerning Human Understanding/ADAM SMITH
The Wealth of Nations/DAVID HUME
That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science
Of the Origin of Justice and Property
Of Scepticism with Regard to Reason/GORDON S. WOOD
Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century/IMMANUEL KANT
What Is Enlightenment?/MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind/ERNST CASSIRER
Nature and Natural Science
NINETEENTH
CENTURY SOCIAL THEORY
Introduction/ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Democracy in America/KARL MARX
Preface to A Contrrbution to the Critique of Political Economy
The Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
The Conmunast Manifesto
The German Ideology/FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Selected Aphorisms from The Gay Science
Selected Aphorisms from Beyond Good and Evil/MAX WEBER
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
¿Objectivity" in Social Science and Science Policy/NORMAN BIRNBAUM
Conflicting Interpretations of the Rise of Capitalism: Marx and Weber
CHALLENGES TO NINETEENTH.CENTURY THEORY.
The Emergence of the Culture Concept and the Soceoloy of Science
Introduction/JOHN DEWEY
Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry/RUTH BENEDICT
Patterns of Culture/CLAUDE LVISTRAUSS
The Savage Mind
CLIFFORD CEERTZ
Thick Description. Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture/MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ADORNO
Dialectic of the Enlightenment/THOMAS KUHN
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative, and the Philosophy of Science / 357/PAUL RICOEUR
The Model of the Text
POSTMODERNIST THOUGHT
The De[con]struction of Modernity
Introducion 385/HAYDEN WHITE
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality /395/MICHEL FOUCAULT
What Is Enlightenment
The History of Sexuality/JACQUES DERRIDA
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Declarations of Independence/RICHARD RORTY
Private Irony and Liberal Hope
Science as Solidarity/CORNEL WEST
A Genealogy of Modern Racism
RESPONDING TO POSTMODERNISM
Introduction/DAVID HARVEY
The Condition ojPostmodernity/JURGEN HABERMAS
Philosophy as Standin and Interpreter
CRAIG CALHOUN
Hahermas and the Public Sphere/SEYLA BENHABIB
Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism
Suggestions for Further Reading
Glossary.