José Medina / David Wood

Truth

Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions
Ed. by David Wood a. Jose Medina

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Produktbeschreibung

Setting the stage with a selection of readings from important nineteenth century philosophers, this reader on truth puts in conversation some of the main philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions.
Focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposing the dialogues between different schools of thought
Features philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions
Topics addressed include the normative relation between truth and subjectivity, consensus, art, testimony, power, and critique
Includes essays by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, James, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, Levinas, Arendt, Foucault, Rorty, Davidson, Habermas, Derrida, and many others

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9781405115506
• ISBN-10: 1405115505
• Artikelnr.: 13604907

Autorenporträt

José Medina is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Speaking from Elsewhere: A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity, and Discursive Agency (2005) and The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy (2002). David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick. His previous books include The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (2005), Thinking After Heidegger (Blackwell, 2002), The Deconstruction of Time (2001), Derrida: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1992), and Philosophy at the Limit (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

General Introduction.

Part I. The Value of Truth: "Revaluing our highestvalues".

Introduction.

1. Friedrich Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a NonmoralSense.

2. William James Pragmatism's Conception of Truth.

Suggested Reading.

Part II. Representation, Subjectivity, andIntersubjectivity.

Introduction.

3. Soren Kierkegaard Truth, Subjectivity and Communication.

4. Ludwig Wittgenstein Remarks on Truth.

5. Donald Davidson Truth and Meaning.

6. Hilary Putnam The Face of Cognition.

Suggested Reading.

Part III. Truth, Consensus, and Transcendence.

Introduction.

7. Richard Rorty Representation, Social Practice, and Truth.

8. Jurgen Habermas Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn.

9. John McDowell Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity.

10. Paul Feyerabend Notes on Relativism.

Suggested Reading.

Part IV. Non-Propositional Truth: Language, Art and World.

Introduction.

11. Gianni Vattimo The Truth of Hermeneutics (with additionalremarks).

12. Joseph Margolis Relativism and Cultural Relativity.

13. Maurice Merleau-Ponty Perception and Truth (withadditional remarks).

14. Jacques Derrida The End of the Book and the Beginning ofWriting.

Suggested Reading.

Part V. Disclosure and Testimony.

Introduction.

15. Edmund Husserl Self-Evidence and Truth (with additionalremarks).

16. Martin Heidegger On the Essence of Truth (with additionalremarks).

17. Emmanuel Levinas Truth of Disclosure and Truth ofTestimony.

18. Catherine Z. Elgin Word Giving, Word Taking.

Suggested Reading.

Part VI. Truth and Power.

Introduction.

19. Hannah Arendt Truth in Politics.

20. Michel Foucault The Discourse on Language (withadditional remarks).

21. Linda Alcoff Reclaiming Truth.

Suggested Reading.

Part VII. A Supplement: Radicalizations of Truth.

22. An essay perforated with short excerpts fromZizek, Butler, Irigaray, Baudrillard and Deleuze.

Suggested Reading.

Primary Sources.

Index

Rezensionen

"There are no longer two dialogues - analytic andcontinental. It is all one now, and more complicated than ever.This collection is an indispensable point of entry to the newconversations." Barry Allen, McMaster University

"It is virtually impossible to imagine a more usefulcollection of texts on this thorny philosophical topic. There is nopretense that herein lies the truth about truth, but there is therealization of a set of complex issues illuminated from radicallydiverse, yet often surprisingly overlapping, perspectives."Vincent Colapietro, Pennsylvania State University