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Why Truth Matters

  • Hardback
  • 216 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 13.5 x 20.7 x 2.2 cm

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For truth-seekers disillusioned by modern ideologies

Debunks fashionable nonsense in today’s culture

You’ll gain clarity and understanding about truth's value

"Why Truth Matters" challenges modern misconceptions about truth.

A witty and eloquent debunking, grounded in solid philosophical scholarship, of the 'fashionable nonsense' that pervades modern culture and academia. Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assorted political and ideological agendas, along with the rise of relativism, postmodernism and pseudoscience in academia, led to a decline both of truth as a serious subject, and an intellectual tradition that began with the Enlightenment. "Why Truth Matters" is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place. Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson, editors of the successful butterfliesandwheels website - itself established to 'fight fashionable nonsense' - identify and debunk such nonsense, and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms.;Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial, the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the willful misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking. "Why Truth Matters" is both a rallying cry for the Enlightenment vision and an essential read for anyone who's ever been bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia.
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  • Title

    Why Truth Matters

  • Authors

    Jeremy Stangroom +1

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    February 2006

  • Weight

    346g

  • Page Count

    216

  • Dimensions

    13.5 x 20.7 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826476081

  • ISBN-10

    0826476082

  • Eden Code

    119134