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As the end of the millennium approaches, many ordinary people are confused and perplexed. On the one hand there are fundamentalists who believe that they have found the one and only truth, and on the other hand are post-modernist intellectuals who believe that truth has become a meaningless concept. In this book, the author proposes a way of understanding and identifying truth which can survive in the post-modern era.
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We need a history of truth - though until now no-one has tried to write one. We need it to test the claim that truth is just a name for opinions which suit the demands of society or the convenience of elites. We need to be able to tell whether truth is changeful or eternal, embedded in time or outside it, universal or varying from place to place.
We need to know how we have got to where we are in the history of truth - how our society has come to lose faith in the reality of it and lose interest in the search for it. We need a history of truth to illuminate the unique predicament of our times and - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto argues - to help us escape from it. He shows how - at different times, in different societies - people have tried to tell the difference between truth and falsehood. And he exposes the concepts of truth which have underpinned those techniques.
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