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Reason, Truth and Self

Name: Reason, Truth and Self
Author: Michael Luntley
ISBN: 9780415118538

by Michael Luntley

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Overview

Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate survives despite the Enlightenment's failings.
Reason, Truth and Self covers many of the key questions of our age:

• How rational is science?

• Can we really know the truth about ourselves and the world?

• What is the nature of the mind?

• Can we know the difference between right and wrong?
Reason, Truth and Self is ideal for courses in philosophy and the social sciences.