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Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the conce
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"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, g
History and Truth
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Pages: 362
Authors: Paul Ricœur
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Incredible originality of thought in areas as vast as phenomenology, religion, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity, language, Marxism, and structura
Truth in History
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Like scholars in other fields, historians have long occupied themselves in self-justification. In a society which calibrates all measures by a single standard,
Reason, Truth and History
Language: en
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Authors: Hilary Putnam
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981-12-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is