Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society Possibilities and Challenges /

This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies, anthropology, social epistemology and sociology discuss and analyse the impact of relativism and post-truth both within the academy...

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Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
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Obsah:
  • 1. Introduction: Engaging relativism and post-truth; Ulf Zackariasson
  • Part I: The Promise of Relativism
  • 2. Relativism versus Absolutism: The Sense of Relativism that Leibniz and Hegel Grasped but Plato didn't; Steve Fuller
  • 3. Postmodern Relativism as Enlightened Pluralism;Raphael Sassower
  • Part II: Post-truth as Social Condition and Truth-game
  • 4. Post-Truth, Social Media, and the "Real" as Phantasm; Michael Sawyer
  • 5. A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge; Morteza Hashemi and Amir R. Bagherpour
  • Part III: Relativism and the Academy
  • 6. On Extrapolation in Trans-cultural Dialogues: The Example of the Use of Einstein ́s Theories of Relativity in the Discourse of Relativism; Bengt Gustafsson
  • 7. Mental Health Diagnosis - is it relative or universal in relation to culture?; Valerie DeMarinis
  • 8. Critique of Human Rights Universalism; Elena Namli
  • Part IV: The Threat of Relativism
  • 9. Scientism and Utopia: New Atheism as a Fundamentalist Reaction to Relativism; Steven LeDrew
  • 10. The Barbarian in Rome and the Cultural Relativism Debate; Mattias Gardell
  • 11. Relativism as a Challenge to Religion: Christianity, Truth and the "Dictatorship of Relativism"; Mikael Stenmark.