Name: why truth matters (en Inglés)
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Author: Stangroom, Jeremy ; Benson, Ophelia
ISBN: 9780826476081

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jeremy Stangroom

Ophelia Benson

Editorial

Continuum

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

202

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

20.6 x 13.5 x 2.2 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN

9780826476081

ISBN13

9780826476081

Categorías

Epistemología y teoría del conocimiento
Filosofía social y política

why truth matters (en Inglés)

Jeremy Stangroom (Autor) · Ophelia Benson (Autor) · Continuum · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "why truth matters (en Inglés)"

Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in allits forms and traditions. Yet in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assortedpolitical and ideological agendas, along with the rise of relativism, postmodernism and pseudoscience in academia, led to a decline both of truth as a serious subject, and an intellectual tradition thatbegan with the Enlightenment. Why Truth Matters is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place. Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson, editors of the successful butterfliesandwheels website-itself established to "fight fashionable nonsense"-identify and debunk such senselessness, and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms. Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial, the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the wilful misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking. Why Truth Matters is both a rallying cry for the enlightened vision and an essential read for anyone who's everbeen bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia.