Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions

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David Wood, José Medina
Wiley, Feb 11, 2005 - Philosophy - 392 pages
Setting the stage with a selection of readings from importantnineteenth century philosophers, this reader on truth puts inconversation some of the main philosophical figures from thetwentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatisttraditions.

  • Focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposingthe dialogues between different schools of thought



  • Features philosophical figures from the twentieth century inthe analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions



  • Topics addressed include the normative relation between truthand subjectivity, consensus, art, testimony, power, andcritique



  • Includes essays by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, James, Heidegger,Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, Levinas, Arendt, Foucault, Rorty,Davidson, Habermas, Derrida, and many others

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About the author (2005)

José Medina is Assistant Professor of Philosophy atVanderbilt University. He is author of Speaking from Elsewhere:A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity, andDiscursive Agency (2005) and The Unity ofWittgenstein’s Philosophy (2002).


David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at VanderbiltUniversity, and Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick.His previous books include The Step Back: Ethics and Politicsafter Deconstruction (2005), Thinking After Heidegger(Blackwell, 2002), The Deconstruction of Time (2001),Derrida: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1992), andPhilosophy at the Limit (1990).


Bibliographic information

TitleTruth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions
Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy
EditorsDavid Wood, José Medina
PublisherWiley, 2005
ISBN1405115505, 9781405115506
Length392 pages
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Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / General
  
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