Politics and Truth

Name: Politics and Truth
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9780791435045
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Political Theory and the Postmodernist Challenge

Szerző: Theresa Man Ling Lee

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: State University of New York Press

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The concept of truth is as contested in late-twentieth-century politics as it was in the Cold War er...

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Szerző

Theresa Man Ling Lee

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1997

oldal

255

EAN

9780791435045

Enbook ID

04699989

Kiadó

State University of New York Press

Súly

340

Méretek

150 x 230 x 15

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The concept of truth is as contested in late-twentieth-century politics as it was in the Cold War era. The political momentum gathered by the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals has made the notion of truth more central than ever in politics. Postmodernism maintains that the philosophical validation of ideas by way of truth is intrinsically linked to the legitimation of power. Having liberated truth from Truth, postmodernism has become the basis of radical politics in the West through its assertion that an anti-foundationalist notion of truth and a non-essentialist conception of the self is central to democratic politics.In this political context Lee considers a series of related questions. Why does it matter politically how truth is validated? Does the claim to having truth necessarily imply a certain claim to authority by those who possess truth? Is truth therefore power? Is a foundationalist notion of truth anti-democratic by implication? Is a contextualist notion necessarily democratic, as the postmodernists suggest?Politics and Truth examines the treatment of these problems in the work of an unusual line-up of thinkers, ranging from Plato and Thomas Hobbes to Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. Lee argues that these disparate thinkers can be usefully juxtaposed to account for the revolt of late-twentieth-century radical politics against the Western philosophical tradition. The book concludes with a consideration of ideology in post-Mao China that shows the elusive if not illusory openness of contextualism.

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