Routledge Reason, Truth and Self: The Postmodern Reconditioned

Product Description Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate survives despite the Enlightenment's failings.Reason, Truth and Self covers many of the key questions of our age: * How rational is science? * Can we really know the truth about ourselves and the world? * What is the nature of the mind? * Can we know the difference between right and wrong?Reason, Truth and Self is ideal for courses in philosophy and the social sciences. About the Author Michael Luntley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.