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Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society

Possibilities and Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Mikael Stenmark

    1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  2. Steve Fuller

    1. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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  3. Ulf Zackariasson

    1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  • Posits that the impact of relativism extends far beyond the direct influence of relativism itself
  • Argues for the dynamic of relativization and various positive and negative reactions to be taken into account of in a multisciplinary capacity
  • Includes multidisciplinary contributions from across the social sciences

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Engaging Relativism and Post-Truth

    • Ulf Zackariasson
    Pages 1-17

  4. Post-Truth as Social Condition and Truth-Game

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Post-Truth, Social Media, and the “Real” as Phantasm

      • Michael E. Sawyer
      Pages 55-69

    3. A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge

      • Morteza Hashemi, Amir R. Bagherpour
      Pages 71-83

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 197-199
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About this book

This 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Mikael Stenmark, Ulf Zackariasson

  • University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Steve Fuller

About the editors

Mikael Stenmark is Professor in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. In his research he has explored different conceptions of God, human nature and of the natural world. He has previously co-edited The Customization of Science: The Impact of Religious and Political Wordviews on Contemporary Science (2014, Palgrave Macmillan) with Adam Briggle and Ulf Zackariasson.
Steve Fuller is the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include the emergence of intellectual property in the information society, the interdisciplinary challenges in the natural and social sciences, the political and epistemological consequences of the new biology, science and religion, the future of humanity.

Ulf Zackariasson is Associate Professor in Philospohy of Religion at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. His research interests include  American pragmatism (both classical pragmatism and neopragmatism) and the possibilities it offers approaching philosophical problems that are brought about by the human phenomenon of religion, such as questions about the role of religion in the public sphere, religious experience and moral criticism of religion.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society

  • Book Subtitle: Possibilities and Challenges

  • Editors: Mikael Stenmark, Steve Fuller, Ulf Zackariasson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96559-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96558-1Published: 26 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07214-8Published: 31 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96559-8Published: 17 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 199

  • Topics: Social Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Postmodern Philosophy

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