Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism

by Christopher Norris

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318725
• ISBN13: 9780822318729
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"