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Truth: Philosophy in Transit (Record no. 3022)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781846146008
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 121
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Caputo, John D.
9 (RLIN) 368210
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Truth: Philosophy in Transit
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books Ltd;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 26 Sep 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 304 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In the first in a new series of easily digestible, commute-length books of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the morning has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some exercise. People used to live within walking distance to the fields in which they worked, or they worked in shops attached to their homes. Now we ride to work, and nearly everywhere else. Which may seem an innocent enough point, and certainly not one on which we require instruction from the philosophers. But, truth be told, it has in fact precipitated a crisis in our understanding of truth. Arguing that our transportation technologies are not merely transient phenomena but the vehicle for an important metaphor about post modernism, or even constitutive of post modernism, John D. Caputo explores the problems posited by the way in which science, ethics, politics, art and religion all claim to offer us (the) "truth", defending throughout a "postmodern", or "hermeneutic" theory of truth, and posits his own surprising theory of the many notions of truth. John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in the postmodern condition. Thomas J. Watson is Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and David R. Cook is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, he has spearheaded an idea he calls weak theology.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
9 (RLIN) 368211
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Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan Karachi Karachi Religion and Philosophy 19/07/2016 1 121 PKLC007034 12/04/2017 19/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Book Bazaar - SOLD 31/03/2017
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Religion and Philosophy 10/05/2016   121 PKLC024093 01/03/2020 10/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale