Truth

The Search for Wisdom in the Postmodern Age

John D. Caputo

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Penguin
03 March 2016

Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Series: Philosophy in Transit

Renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means

What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions? Internationally renowned philosopher John D. Caputo explores truth in the postmodern age.

By: John D. Caputo
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9781846146008
ISBN 10: 1846146003
Series: Philosophy in Transit
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 03 March 2016
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in the postmodern condition. The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, he has spearheaded an idea he calls weak theology.

Reviews for Truth: The Search for Wisdom in the Postmodern Age

Caputo has done a fine job of clarifying and classifying the postmodernist approach to truth and reality. His readable and eloquent book is an excellent guide to the outlook common in a certain strain of Continental European philosophy The Times Literary Supplement