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Politics and Truth
Theresa Man Ling Lee
其他書名
Political Theory and the Postmodernist Challenge
出版State University of New York Press, 1997-08-28
主題Political Science / General
ISBN14384103289781438410326
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PJ-ApdEiHuUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The political momentum gathered by the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals has made the notion of truth more central than ever in politics. Postmodernism maintains that the philosophical validation of ideas by way of truth is intrinsically linked to the legitimation of power. In this political context Lee considers a series of related questions. Why does it matter politically how truth is validated? Does the claim to having truth necessarily imply a certain claim to authority by those who possess truth? Is truth therefore power? Is a foundationalist notion of truth antidemocratic by implication? Is a contextualist notion necessarily democratic, as the postmodernists suggest?

Politics and Truth examines the treatment of these problems in the work of thinkers ranging from Plato and Hobbes to Weber, Foucault, and Arendt. The book concludes with a consideration of ideology in post-Mao China that shows the elusive if not illusory openness of contextualism.