Appleby / Covington / Hoyt Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-136-66435-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Appleby, Joyce

Covington, Elizabeth

Hoyt, David

Latham, Michael

Sneider, Allison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 -- The Politics May be Reduced to a Science
On the Origin of Property
Of Skepticism 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 Manuscrip

Über Autor(innen)

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