Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth

Many people today reject the notion of "objective truth" and argue instead that "truth" is socially constructed and varies fro one culture or community to another. Indeed, the establishment of such a conception of truth is supposed to be one of the principal achievements of "postmodernism", as is skepticism about the ability of modern science to transcend such limitations of subjectivity and of culture. This book defends the idea of objective truth and attempts to show that doing so is a matter of considerable political importance.

We begin this week with the Introduction and Chapter 1 in Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth by David Detmer. (Available to read on Internet Archive – https://archive.org/details/challengingpostm0000detm)