TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norris,Christopher
TI  - Reclaiming truth: contribution to a critique of cultural relativism 
T2  - Post-contemporary interventions
SN  - 0822318822
AV  - BD221 .N67 1996
U1  - ARCH YNDC 149 N853R  20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke university press
KW  - Relativity
KW  - Cultural relativism
KW  - Ethical relativism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; On the discrimination of discourse theories: the "linguistic turn" in philosophical perspective -- Raising the tone: Derrida, Kierkegaard, and the rhetoric of transcendence -- Spinoza, Marx, Althusser: "structural Marxism" twenty years on -- Truth, science and the growth of knowledge: on the limits of cultural relativism -- Marxism against postmodernism, or the Eighteenth Brumaire revisited -- Of an apoplectic tone recently adopted in philosophy
N2  - Truth, Christopher Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the moment - whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits, or purveyors of postmodern wisdom in cultural and literary studies. Across a range of disciplines the idea has taken hold that truth-talk is either redundant or the product of epistemic might. Questions of truth and falsehood are always internal to some specific language-game; history is just another kind of fiction; philosophy is only a kind of writing; law is a wholly rhetorical practice. In Reclaiming Truth, Norris critiques these fashionable trends of thought and mounts a specific challenge to cultural relativist doctrines in epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political theory
ER  -