Reclaiming truth
contribution to a critique of cultural relativism
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Author
Publication
1996 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL978639M
- ISBN-100822318822
- OCLC Control Number34598000
- OCLC Control Numberreclaimingtruthc0000norr
- Library of Congress Control Number96015885
and 2 more
- Goodreads3819993
- LibraryThing2634478
Classifications
- DDC149
- LCCBD221 .N67 1996
Description
Truth, Christopher Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the moment - whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits, or purveyors of postmodern wisdom in cultural and literary studies. Across a range of disciplines the idea has taken hold that truth-talk is either redundant or the product of epistemic might. Questions of truth and falsehood are always internal to some specific language-game; history is just another kind of fiction; philosophy is only a kind of writing; law is a wholly rhetorical practice. In Reclaiming Truth, Norris critiques these fashionable trends of thought and mounts a specific challenge to cultural relativist doctrines in epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political theory.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Post-contemporary interventions
Other Editions
- Reclaiming truth: contribution to a critique of cultural relativism
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