Truth and Historicity

by Richard Campbell

Book Overview

In this scholarly but non-technical book, Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history, from the ancient Greek idea that truth is timeless, unchanging, and free from all relativism, through the seventeenth-century crisis which led to the collapse of that idea, and then on through the emergence of historical consciousness to the existentialist, sociological, and linguistic approaches of our own time. He gives a scholarly but vivid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198239270
• ISBN13: 9780198239277
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"