LEADER 04316nam 22005175 450 001 9910300635803321 005 20200702151840.0 010 $a3-319-96559-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-96559-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000006672098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5517581 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-96559-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006672098 100 $a20180917d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRelativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society$b[electronic resource] $ePossibilities and Challenges /$fedited by Mikael Stenmark, Steve Fuller, Ulf Zackariasson 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) 311 $a3-319-96558-1 327 $a1. Introduction: Engaging relativism and post-truth; Ulf Zackariasson -- Part I: The Promise of Relativism -- 2. Relativism versus Absolutism: The Sense of Relativism that Leibniz and Hegel Grasped but Plato didn?t; Steve Fuller -- 3. Postmodern Relativism as Enlightened Pluralism;Raphael Sassower -- Part II: Post-truth as Social Condition and Truth-game -- 4. Post-Truth, Social Media, and the ?Real? as Phantasm; Michael Sawyer -- 5. A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge; Morteza Hashemi and Amir R. Bagherpour -- Part III: Relativism and the Academy -- 6. On Extrapolation in Trans-cultural Dialogues: The Example of the Use of Einsteinīs Theories of Relativity in the Discourse of Relativism; Bengt Gustafsson -- 7. Mental Health Diagnosis ? is it relative or universal in relation to culture?; Valerie DeMarinis -- 8. Critique of Human Rights Universalism; Elena Namli -- Part IV: The Threat of Relativism -- 9. Scientism and Utopia: New Atheism as a Fundamentalist Reaction to Relativism; Steven LeDrew -- 10. The Barbarian in Rome and the Cultural Relativism Debate; Mattias Gardell -- 11. Relativism as a Challenge to Religion: Christianity, Truth and the ?Dictatorship of Relativism?; Mikael Stenmark. 330 $aThis book approaches post-truth and relativism in a multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies, anthropology, social epistemology and sociology discuss and analyse the impact of relativism and post-truth both within the academy and in society at large. The motivation for this multidisciplinary approach is that relativism and post-truth are multifaceted phenomena with complex histories that have played out differently in different areas of society and different academic disciplines. There is hence a multitude of ways in which to use and understand the concepts and the phenomena to which they refer, and a multitude of critiques and defenses as well. No single volume can capture the ongoing discussions in different areas in all their complexity, but the different chapters of the book can function as exemplifications of the ramifications these phenomena have had. 606 $aSocial sciences?Philosophy 606 $aPhilosophy and social sciences 606 $aPostmodernism 606 $aSocial Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E43000 606 $aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E36000 606 $aPostmodern Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E45000 615 0$aSocial sciences?Philosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy and social sciences. 615 0$aPostmodernism. 615 14$aSocial Philosophy. 615 24$aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences. 615 24$aPostmodern Philosophy. 676 $a149 702 $aStenmark$b Mikael$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aFuller$b Steve$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aZackariasson$b Ulf$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300635803321 996 $aRelativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society$92218320 997 $aUNINA