Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions

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.

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• Focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposing the dialogues between different schools of thought

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• Features philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions

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• Topics addressed include the normative relation between truth and subjectivity, consensus, art, testimony, power, and critique

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• Includes essays by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, James, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, Levinas, Arendt, Foucault, Rorty, Davidson, Habermas, Derrida, and many others