Truth and Social Science : From Hegel to Deconstruction

by Dr. Ross Abbinnett

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0803975929

ISBN-13 9780803975927

Publisher SAGE Publications Inc

Imprint SAGE Publications Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 30th, 1998

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 460 grams

Product Classification: History of Western philosophy Social theory

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The author traces the debate from the "objectifying powers" of Kant through more than 200 years of critique and reformulation to the unravelling of the debate by Lyotard, Foucault and Derrida. The book includes a look at the collapse of modernity and the rise of new forms of thought.

This exciting and accessible guide to the discussions of truth in the social sciences can also be read as an account of the collapse of modernity, and the rise of new forms of thought which treat difference and ambivalence as positive values.

Ross Abbinnett traces the debate on truth from the `objectifying powers′ of Kant through more than 200 years of critique and reformulation to the unravelling of truth by Lyotard, Foucault and Derrida.

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