Truth (Philosophy in Transit)
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Caputo, John D.
简介
In the first in a new series of easily digestible, commute-lengthbooks of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means
Riding to work in the morning has has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some exercise. People used to live within walking distance to the fields in which they worked, or they worked in shops attached to their homes. Now we ride to work, and nearly everywhere else. Which may seem an innocent enough point, and certainly not one on which we require instruction from the philosophers. But, truth be told, it has in fact precipitated a crisis in our understanding of truth.
Arguing that our transportation technologies are not merely transient phenomena but the vehicle for an important metaphor about postmodernism, or even constitutive of postmodernism, John D. Caputo explores the problems posited by the way in which science, ethics, politics, art and religion all claim to offer us (the) "truth", defending throughout a "postmodern", or "hermeneutic" theory of truth, and posits his own surprising theory of the many notions of truth.
contents
Introduction: Truth on the Go 1
1 . Modernity and the Eclipse of Truth 21
2 . What Do We Do with Religious Truth? 49
3 . Letting Truth Be: Augustine,
Derrida and the Postmodern Turn 66
4 . The Enlightenment and Its Critics:
A Short History 114
5 . Postmodern Prophets 156
6 . Truth in the Postmodern Situation 198
7 . The Future of Truth 244
Suggestions for Further Reading 263
Notes 267
Index 277