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1 online resource |
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Electronic book. |
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text |
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computer |
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online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 and in society at large. The motivation for this multidisciplinary approach is that relativism and post-truth are multifaceted phenomena with complex histories that have played out differently in different areas of society and different academic disciplines. There is hence a multitude of ways in which to use and understand the concepts and the phenomena to which they refer, and a multitude of critiques and defenses as well. No single volume can capture the ongoing discussions in different areas in all their complexity, but the different chapters of the book can function as exemplifications of the ramifications these phenomena have had. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 20, 2018). |
| Contents |
Intro; Preface; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Engaging Relativism andPost-Truth; Relativity, Relativization andPost-Truth; A (Very) Brief History ofRelativization; Typologies ofRelativism; Navigating aPost-Truth Condition: Overview oftheChapters; References; Part I: The Promise of Relativism; Chapter 2: Relativism Versus Absolutism: TheSense ofRelativism That Leibniz andHegel Grasped but Plato Didn't; Introduction: What Is theOpposite ofRelativism-Universalism or Absolutism?; Why Plato WasNo Absolutist; Saint Augustine Turns Plato toAbsolutism |
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Conclusion: TheEthics ofAbsolutism-Living Forever asaMeans WithoutEnds?References; Chapter 3: Postmodern Relativism asEnlightened Pluralism; Introduction; Postmodern Pluralism asCritique; Postmodern Relativism inMoral Terms; Pluralism inPractice; References; Part II: Post-Truth as Social Condition and Truth-Game; Chapter 4: Post-Truth, Social Media, andthe"Real" asPhantasm; References; Chapter 5: A Theory ofEvolution ofReligious Knowledge inaPost-Revolutionary Iran: AndaNew Frontier forSociology ofKnowledge; Introduction; The Historical Background |
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Historicity ofReligious Knowledge: Problematic yet UnavoidableA Crypto-Secular Theory or aPost-Truth Game?; Conclusion: Post-Truth asaSociological Concept; References; Part III: Relativism and the Academy; Chapter 6: On Extrapolation inTrans-Cultural Dialogues: TheExample oftheUse ofEinstein's Theories ofRelativity intheDiscourse ofRelativism; Criticism ofRelativity andRelativism; Derrida's "Einsteinian Constant"; An Example of"Forced Relativism"; References; Chapter 7: Mental Health Diagnosis: Is It Relative orUniversal inRelation toCulture? |
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Operating Definitions, Terms, andConceptual Starting Points forUnderstanding theUniversal-Relative DebateUnderstanding thePositioning ofCulture intheDSM Process; Understanding thePositioning ofCulture intheDSM-IV; Introduction totheManual; Cultural Considerations for Specific Disorders; Cultural Annotations fortheMultiaxial Schema; Cultural Formulation Outline; Glossary ofCulture-Bound Syndromes (CBS) andIdioms ofDistress; Understanding thePositioning ofCulture intheDSM-5; The Cultural Formulation Interview; References; Chapter 8: Critique ofHuman Rights Universalism |
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Three Forms ofUniversalism andRelativismWhat Is Problematic AboutHuman Rights Universalism?; Human Rights asLegal, Moral, andPolitical Conventions: TheFourth Form ofRelativism; Toward Critical Universalism; References; Part IV: The Threat of Relativism; Chapter 9: Scientism andUtopia: New Atheism asaFundamentalist Reaction toRelativism; Secular Fundamentalism; The Ideology ofScientific Atheism; New Atheism andtheScience Wars; Islam andCivilization; The Project ofUtopia; References; Chapter 10: The Barbarian inRome andtheCultural Relativism Debate |
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SpringerLink Springer English/International eBooks 2018 - Full Set |
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Available through SpringerLink (SHEDL) |
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University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login on and off-campus. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Relativity.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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Stenmark, Mikael, editor.
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Fuller, Steve, editor.
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Zackariasson, Ulf, editor.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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| ISBN |
9783319965598 (electronic bk.) |
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331996559X (electronic bk.) |
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3319965581 (Trade Cloth) |
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9783319965581 |
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9783319965581 |
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