Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions

David Wood · José Medina

2008 оны 4-р сар · John Wiley & Sons ээс худалдаалагдав

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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

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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).