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  Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism (Paperback) By (author) Christopher Norris

  

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  Short Description for Reclaiming TruthThis volume is a polemical warning against a too easy rejection of the standards of truth and value in the modern world, and is a further sortie in Christopher Norris's prolonged battle with the wilder side of postmodernism, particularly with the exponents of "deconstruction" techniques.
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  • Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
  • Published: 16 August 1996
  • Format: Paperback 244 pages
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  • Categories: Cultural Studies | Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Political Science & Theory | Philosophy | Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology
  • ISBN 13: 9780853158158 ISBN 10: 0853158150

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• We live in a world where questions of truth and of falsehood are left increasingly unattended. Such questions are often replaced by a relativism which allows any group the right to assert their values with impunity. Should, however, stories from an event such as the Holocaust be given equal truth status to neo-Nazi claims that it never happened? This book is a polemical warning against a too easy rejection of the standards of truth and value in the modern world, and is a further sortie in Christopher Norris's prolonged battle with the wilder side of postmodernism. Christopher Norris makes a timely reassessment of the cultural theorist Louis Althusser, and also makes a political case for Jacques Derrida whose "deconstruction" techniques are described as a useful tool when up against the rhetorical gestures of those theorists, such as Stanley Fish and Richard Rorty, who are trapped in the postmodern playpen. The book should be of interest to any student of contemporary philosophy, critical theory and politics, and should be a contribution to the debate that is currently dominated by conservative thinkers. Christopher Norris is the author of "The Deconstructive Turn", Jacques Derrida", "What's Wrong with Postmodernism" and "Uncritical Theory: Intellectuals, Politics and the Gulf War".