256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner... Read more
PREFACE -- POSTMODERNISM, REASON AND RELIGION -- Religious Fundamentalism -- Postmodernism and Relativism -- Relativismus Uber Alles -- The Characters -- The Third Man -- Rationalist Fundamentalism -- NOTES -- INDEX.
Biography
Ernest Gellner, University of Cambridge
