Reason, Truth and the Self: Getting to Know the Truth about Postmodernism

ISBN-13: 9780415118521 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 264 str.

Michael Luntley; M. Luntley;Luntley Michael

Opis

Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason, t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate survives despite the Enlightenment's failings.
Reason, Truth and Self covers many of the key questions of our age:
* How rational is science?
* Can we really know the truth about ourselves and the world?
* What is the nature of the mind?
* Can we know the difference between right and wrong?
Reason, Truth and Self is ideal for courses in philosophy and the social sciences.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The cosmic register; Chapter 2 Mind – the final mystery?; Chapter 3 No Archimedean point; Chapter 4 Nothing is certain, nothing is known?; Chapter 5 A web of our own conceit?; Chapter 6 Whose game is it anyway?; Chapter 7 The fragility of knowledge; Chapter 8 Who are we?; Chapter 9 Citizens of the here and now; Chapter 10 The making of our selves;

O autorze

Michael Luntley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Language, Logic and Experience (1988) and The Meaning of Socialism (1989). He also plays the tenor sax.