Truth and historicity
1992, 1st edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #422674
ISBN: 0198239270
Physical description: xi, 463 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Introduction: Our contemporary intellectual predicament -- Doing philosophy historically -- Truth as divine norm -- Timeless truth -- Truth and the divine intellect -- Doing the truth -- Truth and judgements -- The forms fracture -- Truth as the positive reality of ideas: Descartes's project -- Truth and the new way of ideas: the foundations of Locke's empiricism -- Truth in a contingent world. Leibniz's defence of contingent truth -- The emergence of historicity: The rise of historical consciousness -- The truth as a historical result: The emergence of the philosophy of history -- Individual existence and the appropriation of truth: Philosophy beyond Hegel -- Truth as a social construct: Marx's emphasis on practical activity -- Truth and the analysis of logical form: The linguistic conception of truth -- The historicity of truth -- Truth in action. Subjects: Truth; History Philosophy; Truth Philosophical aspects; Epistemology.
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