Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

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.