{"product_id":"why-truth-matters-jeremy-stangroom-9780826495280","title":"Why Truth Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003eTruth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assorted political and ideological agendas, along with the rise of relativism, postmodernism and pseudoscience in academia, led to a decline both of truth as a serious subject, and an intellectual tradition that began with the Enlightenment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy Truth Matters is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place. Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, editors of the successful ButterfliesandWheels.Com website - itself established to 'fight fashionable nonsense' - identify and debunk such nonsense, and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms. Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial, the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the wilful misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy Truth Matters is both a rallying cry for the Enlightenment vision and an essential read for anyone who has ever been bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Stangroom, Ophelia Benson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826495281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826495280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.56w x 0.66d","brand":"Jeremy Stangroom","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739284459775,"sku":"9780826495280","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6827a30e-15c1-4a8a-811a-1dcd88317c69.jpg?v=1743277754","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-truth-matters-jeremy-stangroom-9780826495280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}