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History and Truth
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Paul Ricœur
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Incredible originality of thought in areas as vast as phenomenology, religion, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity, language, Marxism, and structura
Truth in History
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Transaction Publishers

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This is a work in both the social history of professional historians, and a sociology of knowledge study of how and why a discipline surrenders the search for t
The Truth of History
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: C. Behan McCullagh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the conce
A Social History of Truth
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Steven Shapin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational stat
A Short History of Truth
Language: en
Pages: 69
Authors: Julian Baggini
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-21 - Publisher: Quercus

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How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions