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Truth is in trouble. In response, this book presents a new conception of truth. It recognizes that prominent philosophers have questioned whether the idea of truth is important. Some have asked why we even need it. Their questions reinforce broader trends in Western society, where many wonder whether or why we should pursue truth. Indeed, some pundits say we have become a "post-truth" society. Yet there are good reasons not to embrace the cultural Zeitgeist or go with the philosophical flow, reasons to regard truth as a substantive and socially significant idea. This book explains why. First it argues that propositional truth is only one kind of truth--an important kind, but not all important. Then it shows how propositional truth belongs to the more comprehensive process of truth as a whole. This process is a dynamic correlation between human fidelity to societal principles and a life-giving disclosure of society. The correlation comes to expression in distinct social domains of truth, where either propositional or nonpropositional truth is primary. The final chapters lay out five such domains: science, politics, art, religion, and philosophy. Anyone who cares about the future of truth in society will want to read this pathbreaking book.

Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant when political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain? Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, this book provides a path-breaking response to these questions to help redirect an allegedly post-truth society.

Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism and new technologies upon nature and human life. Zuidervaart reclaims Adorno's insights from Habermasian neglect while taking up legitimate Habermasian criticisms. He also addresses the prospects for radical and democratic transformations of an increasingly globalized world. The book proposes a provocative social philosophy 'after Adorno'

Compares 2 essays, both written in the 1930's, by Heidegger and Horkheimer, respectively. To access these essays, one must understand Hegel, who felt substance and subject were of equal import in apprehending the truth, whereas Heidegger places substance at a much higher footing, and Horkheimer seeks more subject, while downgrading the importance of substance. After extrapolating each philosopher's position, seeks to place these positions and their meanings into contemporary terms, via thinkers like JL Austin, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell. All told, the question arises about where propositional correctness and greater comprehensive truth meet. Explores these queries in 4 parts. The first section considers the Critical Metaphenomenology of Heidegger, which begins at evaluating the questioning of what truth is, as much as seeking the answer itself. Part 2 explores the Metacritical Phenomenology of Horkheimer, which attempts to avoid relativism and absolutism as they create a polarity in disparity to capitalism. His methods include tracing the thoughts of truth by such greats as Descartes and Hegel and demonstrating where Horkheimer appropriated certain thought, as that of the Hegelian Dialectic. Part 3, Dialectical Disclosure, looks at the 2 theses together, at where they meet in congruence, and where they differ. Sees the 2 trains of thought, though discongruent, to overall create a synthesis that is agreeable to truth. The ultimate section expands the author's own ideas about where the 2 philosophers meet, and can be expanded upon, particularly in regards to propositional validity and anti-deflationary theory. S. Fullmer