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• Title:Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society Possibilities and Challenges / edited by Mikael Stenmark, Steve Fuller, Ulf Zackariasson.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Stenmark, Mikael.
  Fuller, Steve.
  Zackariasson, Ulf.
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  Springer Nature - Springer Religion and Philosophy eBooks 2018 English International
  
• Published/Created:Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  
• In:Springer Nature eBook
  

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  • Call Number: H61.15
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Social sciences-Philosophy.
  Philosophy and social sciences.
  Postmodernism.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  Social Philosophy.
  Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
  Post-Modern Philosophy.
  
• Edition:1st ed. 2018.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• 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.
  
• ISBN:9783319965598
  9783319965581
  9783319965604
  9783030072148
  
• Contents: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.