Truth

The Search for Wisdom in the Postmodern Age

What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions? Internationally renowned philosopher John D. Caputo explores truth in the postmodern age.

Caputo's entertaining investigation into the nature of truth . . . sets out his case confidently, enlisting Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Derrida as his allies. (His explanation of Derrida's thought is one of the clearest that I've read.) . . . The starting point for a more sophisticated discussion

David Wolf, Prospect

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Details
  • Series: Philosophy in Transit
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781846146008
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 202g
  • Price: £10.99
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