Reason, Truth and Self: Getting to Know Truth About Postmodernism
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Postmodernism has had a significant and divisive impact on late-Twentieth Century thought. Proponents of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have felt it necessary to jettison the Enlightenment concepts of truth, reason and the self. Opponents of postmodernism have seized on this abandonment of rational standards only to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to debate and offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate can survive even if the main postmodernist critique of the Enlightenment is accepted. Reason, Truth and Self covers many of the key questions of our age: the rationality of science; the availability of rational but non-scientific ways of understanding ourselves and our world; the nature of mind and of knowledge; the nature of moral judgement and the scope for accounts of the self that do justice to our situatedness in real historical circumstances.
PrefaceIntroduction11The cosmic register252Mind - the final mystery?523No Archimedean point684Nothing is certain, nothing is known?875A web of our own conceit?1036Whose game is it anyway?1247The fragility of knowledge1368Who are we?1509Citizens of the here and now17310The making of our selves197Glossary225Notes228Index of names248
