Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective

✍ Scribed by Joyce Oldham Appleby

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 572
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective Introduction
The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Thought
Introduction
Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning
René 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 Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
The Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
The Communist 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: Emergence of the Culture Concept and the Sociology of Science
Introduction
John Dewey
Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry
Ruth Benedict
Patterns of Culture
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Savage Mind
Clifford Geertz
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
Paul Ricoeur
The Model of the Text
Postmodernist Thought The De[con]struction of Modernity
Introduction
Hayden White
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
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 of Postmodernity
Jürgen Habermas
Philosophy as Stand-In and Interpreter
Craig Calhoun
Habermas and the Public Sphere
Seyla Benhabib
Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism
Suggestions for Further Reading
Glossary