Explores the ideological options open to modern society by considering the three main visions influential at present: Religious fundamentalism; Permissive relativism; and a liberalism commited to the idea of the uniqueness of truth, without claiming to possess it.
Explores the ideological options open to modern society by considering the three main visions influential at present: Religious fundamentalism; Permissive relativism; and a liberalism commited to the idea of the uniqueness of truth, without claiming to possess it.
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective offers answers to the questions, what is postmodernism? and what exactly are the characteristics of the modernism that postmodernism supercedes? This reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge durin…