Title: Reclaiming truth
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Cultural relativism, Relativity, Ethical relativism, Relativismus, Relativisme culturel, Relativisme moral, Waarheid, Ouvrages de controverse, Relativité, Controversial literature
LC classification: BD221 .N67 1996