Truth

The Search for Wisdom in the Postmodern Age

AvJohn D. Caputo

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions? Internationally renowned philosopher John D. Caputo explores truth in the postmodern age.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-26
Mått:130 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt:202 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philosophy in Transit
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9781846146008

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Mer om författaren

John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in the postmodern condition. The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, he has spearheaded an idea he calls weak theology.

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Caputo's entertaining investigation into the nature of truth . . . sets out his case confidently, enlisting Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Derrida as his allies. (His explanation of Derrida's thought is one of the clearest that I've read.) . . . The starting point for a more sophisticated discussion