Reclaiming truth
Subtitle: contribution to a critique of cultural relativism
By: Christopher Norris.
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Relativity -- Controversial literature.; Cultural relativism -- Controversial literature.; Ethical relativism -- Controversial literature.
Description: 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; philosophy is only a kind of writing; law is a wholly rhetorical practice. In Reclaiming Truth, Norris critiques these fashionable trends of thought and mounts a specific challenge to cultural relativist doctrines in epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.