- Last Name
- DETMER
- First Name
- David
- Title
- Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth
- Publisher
- Amherst, NY: Humanity Books
- Year
- 2003
- Group
- PMO4
- Comments
- See Extended comments here
Contents:
- Husserl's critique of relativism
- Self-referential inconsistency
- The argument from disagreement
- Sartre's defense of truth
- Truth in ethics and politics: Sartre vs. Rorty
- What is objectivity?: Sartre versus the journalists
- The anti-truth squad
- The limitations of rationality and science?: Noam Chomsky, O.J. Simpson, and Alan Sokal *Chomsky, political correctness, and the politics of truth