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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
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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