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  • Published: 3 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9781846146008
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $35.00

Truth




Renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means

What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions? Internationally renowned philosopher John D. Caputo explores truth in the postmodern age.

  • Published: 3 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9781846146008
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $35.00

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Praise for Truth

Caputo's entertaining investigation into the nature of truth . . . sets out his case confidently, enlisting Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Derrida as his allies. (His explanation of Derrida's thought is one of the clearest that I've read.) . . . The starting point for a more sophisticated discussion

David Wolf, Prospect

Caputo has done a fine job of clarifying and classifying the postmodernist approach to truth and reality. His readable and eloquent book is an excellent guide to the outlook common in a certain strain of Continental European philosophy

The Times Literary Supplement