{"product_id":"the-truth-about-the-truth-isbn-9780874778014","title":"The Truth about the Truth","description":"Includes essays and excerpts from the works of prominent modern thinkers such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Isaiah Berlin among others.The Truth About TruthIntroduction: What's Going On Here?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART ONE. IN AND OUT OF THE GRAND HOTEL \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThemes and Definitions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Steinar Kvale: Themes of Postmodernity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Charles Jencks: What Is Post-Modernism?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Umberto Eco: \"I Love You Madly,\" He Said Self-consciously\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Construction of Reality \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ernest Becker: The Fragile Fiction\u003cbr\u003e 5. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: The Dehumanized World\u003cbr\u003e 6. Michel Foucault: Strategies of Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree Useful Inventions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Isaiah Berlin: The Idea of Pluralism\u003cbr\u003e 8. Roy Wagner: The Idea of Culture\u003cbr\u003e 9. Werner Sollors: The Idea of Ethnicity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO. ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSymbols at Work and Play\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Richard Shweder: Santa Claus on the Cross\u003cbr\u003e 11. Jean Baudrillard: The Map Precedes the Territory\u003cbr\u003e 12. Ernest Sternberg: The Economy of Icons\u003cbr\u003e 13. Jacques Derrida: The Play of Substitution\u003cbr\u003e 14. Stephen Katz: How to Speak and Write Postmodern\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDifferent Kinds of Difference \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. James Davison Hunter: The Orthodox and the Progressive\u003cbr\u003e 16. Richard Rorty: Ironists and Metaphysicians\u003cbr\u003e 17. Pauline Marie Rosenau: Affirmatives and Skeptics\u003cbr\u003e 18. Walter Truett Anderson: Four Different Ways to Be Absolutely Right\u003cbr\u003e 19. bell hooks: Postmodern Blackness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE. SELF, SEX AND SANITY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pluralistic Person, The Disappearing Self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20. Robert Jay Lifton: The Protean Style\u003cbr\u003e 21. Kenneth J. Gergen: The Healthy, Happy Human Being Wears Many Masks\u003cbr\u003e 22. Connie Zweig: The Death of the Self in the Postmodern World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSex and Gender \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 23. Maureen O'Hara: Constructing Emancipatory Realities\u003cbr\u003e 24. William Simon: The Postmodernization of Sex and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReconstructing Psychology \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 25. Stanley Krippner and Michael Winkler: Studying Consciousness in the Postmodern Age\u003cbr\u003e 26. Maureen O'Hara and Walter Truett Anderson: Psychotherapy's Own Identity Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR. FAITH AND FREEDOM \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience without Scientism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27. Howard Gardner: Gifted Worldmakers\u003cbr\u003e 28. Thomas Kuhn: Scientists and Their Worldviews\u003cbr\u003e 29. Paul Feyerabend: Anything Goes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReligion in the Age of Disbelief \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30. Huston Smith: Postmodernism and the World's Religions\u003cbr\u003e 31. Martin Marty: Religio-Secular Society\u003cbr\u003e 32. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Opening of the American Mind\u003cbr\u003e 33. Vaclav Havel: The Search for Meaning in a Global Civilization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The End and Beginning of Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalt Truett Anderson's\u003c\/b\u003e previous books included \u003cb\u003eReality Isn't What it Used to Be\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eTo Govern Evolution\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRethinking Liberalism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Upstart Spring and Open Secrets\u003c\/b\u003e.  A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a fellow of the Meridian Institute, an international network of Scholars and practitioners concerned with issues of governance, earning, leadership and the future.  He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003ePacific News Service\u003c\/i\u003e and currently serves as president of the American division of the World Academy of Art and Science.","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299978137829,"sku":"NP9780874778014","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780874778014.jpg?v=1767741928","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-truth-about-the-truth-isbn-9780874778014","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}