Challenging postmodernism : philosophy and the politics of truth /
Detmer, David,1958-
Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Husserl's critique of relativism -- Self-referential inconsistency -- The argument from disagreement -- Sartre's defense of truth -- Truth in ethics and politics : Sartre vs. Rorty - What is objectivity? : Sartre versus the journalists -- The anti-truth squad -- The limitations of rationality and science? : Noam Chomsky, O.J. Simpson, and Alan Sokal -- Chomsky, political correctness, and the politics of truth.
Postmodernism.
Truth.
Political correctness.