Walt Truett Anderson's previous books included Reality Isn't What it Used to Be, To Govern Evolution, Rethinking Liberalism, The Upstart Spring and Open Secrets. A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a fellow of the Meridian Institute, an international network of Scholars and practitioners concerned with issues of governance, earning, leadership and the future. He writes regularly for the Pacific News Service and currently serves as president of the American division of the World Academy of Art and Science.
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The Truth About TruthIntroduction: What's Going On Here? PART ONE. IN AND OUT OF THE GRAND HOTEL Themes and Definitions 1. Steinar Kvale: Themes of Postmodernity 2. Charles Jencks: What Is Post-Modernism? 3. Umberto Eco: "I Love You Madly," He Said Self-consciously The Construction of Reality 4. Ernest Becker: The Fragile Fiction 5. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: The Dehumanized World 6. Michel Foucault: Strategies of Power Three Useful Inventions 7. Isaiah Berlin: The Idea of Pluralism 8. Roy Wagner: The Idea of Culture 9. Werner Sollors: The Idea of Ethnicity PART TWO. ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR Symbols at Work and Play 10. Richard Shweder: Santa Claus on the Cross 11. Jean Baudrillard: The Map Precedes the Territory 12. Ernest Sternberg: The Economy of Icons 13. Jacques Derrida: The Play of Substitution 14. Stephen Katz: How to Speak and Write Postmodern Different Kinds of Difference 15. James Davison Hunter: The Orthodox and the Progressive 16. Richard Rorty: Ironists and Metaphysicians 17. Pauline Marie Rosenau: Affirmatives and Skeptics 18. Walter Truett Anderson: Four Different Ways to Be Absolutely Right 19. bell hooks: Postmodern Blackness PART THREE. SELF, SEX AND SANITY The Pluralistic Person, The Disappearing Self 20. Robert Jay Lifton: The Protean Style 21. Kenneth J. Gergen: The Healthy, Happy Human Being Wears Many Masks 22. Connie Zweig: The Death of the Self in the Postmodern World Sex and Gender 23. Maureen O'Hara: Constructing Emancipatory Realities 24. William Simon: The Postmodernization of Sex and Gender Reconstructing Psychology 25. Stanley Krippner and Michael Winkler: Studying Consciousness in the Postmodern Age 26. Maureen O'Hara and Walter Truett Anderson: Psychotherapy's Own Identity Crisis PART FOUR. FAITH AND FREEDOM Science without Scientism 27. Howard Gardner: Gifted Worldmakers 28. Thomas Kuhn: Scientists and Their Worldviews 29. Paul Feyerabend: Anything Goes Religion in the Age of Disbelief 30. Huston Smith: Postmodernism and the World's Religions 31. Martin Marty: Religio-Secular Society 32. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Opening of the American Mind 33. Vaclav Havel: The Search for Meaning in a Global Civilization Epilogue: The End and Beginning of Enlightenment Notes Contributors
The Truth About TruthIntroduction: What's Going On Here? PART ONE. IN AND OUT OF THE GRAND HOTEL Themes and Definitions 1. Steinar Kvale: Themes of Postmodernity 2. Charles Jencks: What Is Post-Modernism? 3. Umberto Eco: "I Love You Madly," He Said Self-consciously The Construction of Reality 4. Ernest Becker: The Fragile Fiction 5. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: The Dehumanized World 6. Michel Foucault: Strategies of Power Three Useful Inventions 7. Isaiah Berlin: The Idea of Pluralism 8. Roy Wagner: The Idea of Culture 9. Werner Sollors: The Idea of Ethnicity PART TWO. ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR Symbols at Work and Play 10. Richard Shweder: Santa Claus on the Cross 11. Jean Baudrillard: The Map Precedes the Territory 12. Ernest Sternberg: The Economy of Icons 13. Jacques Derrida: The Play of Substitution 14. Stephen Katz: How to Speak and Write Postmodern Different Kinds of Difference 15. James Davison Hunter: The Orthodox and the Progressive 16. Richard Rorty: Ironists and Metaphysicians 17. Pauline Marie Rosenau: Affirmatives and Skeptics 18. Walter Truett Anderson: Four Different Ways to Be Absolutely Right 19. bell hooks: Postmodern Blackness PART THREE. SELF, SEX AND SANITY The Pluralistic Person, The Disappearing Self 20. Robert Jay Lifton: The Protean Style 21. Kenneth J. Gergen: The Healthy, Happy Human Being Wears Many Masks 22. Connie Zweig: The Death of the Self in the Postmodern World Sex and Gender 23. Maureen O'Hara: Constructing Emancipatory Realities 24. William Simon: The Postmodernization of Sex and Gender Reconstructing Psychology 25. Stanley Krippner and Michael Winkler: Studying Consciousness in the Postmodern Age 26. Maureen O'Hara and Walter Truett Anderson: Psychotherapy's Own Identity Crisis PART FOUR. FAITH AND FREEDOM Science without Scientism 27. Howard Gardner: Gifted Worldmakers 28. Thomas Kuhn: Scientists and Their Worldviews 29. Paul Feyerabend: Anything Goes Religion in the Age of Disbelief 30. Huston Smith: Postmodernism and the World's Religions 31. Martin Marty: Religio-Secular Society 32. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Opening of the American Mind 33. Vaclav Havel: The Search for Meaning in a Global Civilization Epilogue: The End and Beginning of Enlightenment Notes Contributors
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