Eros for the Other: Retaining Truth in a Pluralistic World
Eros for the Other takes up the problem of how truth claims and ethical norms can survive the increasingly radical recognition of the historical, cultural, pluralistic, and often ideological character of human experience. Sharing with postmodernism a suspicion of totalizing forms of knowledge and practice, Wendy Farley parts with postmodernism in defending the possibility of truth and ethics. Arguing that reality occurs in the concrete existence of actual beings (human and otherwise), she...
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11The Construction of Reality: Plurality and Illusion152Totality and the Dismemberment of Truth: Arendt and Levinas393Eros and the Other674Ideas1115Woman and Women: On Essence and Idea1476The Practice of Truth185Bibliography201Index217
