Uncertain Truth

Uncertain Truth

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Mar 21, 1995 · English · Hardcover (172 pages)
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Book Details

Format Hardcover
Pages 172
Language English
Published Mar 21, 1995
Publisher University Press of America
ISBN-10 0819198501
ISBN-13 9780819198501

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Is there 'truth' even if it is not certain and we cannot be certain about it? Sontag answers a resounding 'yes' in Uncertain Truth asserting that, in a skeptical time, truth is still possible but is not ours to possess with certainty. 'Truth' must therefore be reconceived in its philosophical perspective.
Truth and Theory ; Freud and Universal Theory; Truth as Fictive; Darwin's Rebuff to Experience and to Common Sense; Observable Truth ; Useful in Science, Distorting in Human Nature; Reversing the Fall, Building Up Eden; Biblical Truth; "The Oath against Modernism"; Faults on the Road to Truth ; The Good vs. the True; Gossip, Rumor, Prejudice and Truth, Fact and Description; Misrepresenting Truth; Philosophical Fashions ; The Rise and Fall of Intellectual Empires; Truth in Cultural Context; Prejudice, Discrimination and Hierarchy; Discovering Truth ; Fictional Truth; Surface Truth; "For no beginnings are in the intellect"; The World According to Yeats ; The Despotism of Fact; Imaginative Truth; An Age of Imagination; The Art of the Unseen; The Reference of Our Dreams; Romanticism Restored; The Designer of the Locks Holds the Unavailable Keys ; The Argument for God at the End of the 20th Century.

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