| Description |
1 online resource (572 p.) |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Covington, Elizabeth
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Hoyt, David
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Latham, Michael
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Sneider, Allison
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| ISBN |
9781136664427 |
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1136664424 |
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