Reason, Truth and the Self : Getting to Know The Truth About Postmodernism

✍ Scribed by Michael Luntley

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
The cosmic register......Page 40
Mind;the final mystery?......Page 67
No Archimedean point......Page 83
Nothing is certain, nothing is known?......Page 102
A web of our own conceit?......Page 118
Whose game is it anyway?......Page 139
The fragility of knowledge......Page 151
Who are we?......Page 165
Citizens of the here and now......Page 188
The making of our selves......Page 212
Glossary......Page 240
Notes......Page 243
Index of names......Page 263