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Author Lee, Theresa Man Ling.

Title Politics and truth : political theory and the postmodernist challenge / Theresa Man Ling Lee.

Publication Info. New York : State University of New York Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues
SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-234) and index.
Contents Introduction -- pt. 1. Historical overview: Plato: truth, nontruth, and legitimate power. Hobbes: the science of politics -- pt. 2. Contemporary conundrum: Weber: rationalization and politics. Foucault: discursive politics and the modern state. Arendt: totalitarianism and the human condition -- pt. 3. Conclusion: The politics of truth in context: the case of China. Politics, truth, and democratic practice.
Summary The political momentum gathered by the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals has made the notion of truth more central than ever in politics. Postmodernism maintains that the philosophical validation of ideas by way of truth is intrinsically linked to the legitimation of power. In this political context Lee considers a series of related questions. Why does it matter politically how truth is validated? Does the claim to having truth necessarily imply a certain claim to authority by those who possess truth? Is truth therefore power? Is a foundationalist notion of truth antidemocratic by implication? Is a contextualist notion necessarily democratic, as the postmodernists suggest? Politics and Truth examines the treatment of these problems in the work of thinkers ranging from Plato and Hobbes to Weber, Foucault, and Arendt. The book concludes with a consideration of ideology in post-Mao China that shows the elusive if not illusory openness of contextualism.
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Subject Political science.
Political science.
Truth.
Truth.
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lee, Theresa Man Ling. Politics and truth. New York : State University of New York Press, ©1997 0791435032 (DLC) 97003267 (OCoLC)36649189
ISBN 0585055831 (electronic book)
9780585055831 (electronic book)
0791435032
0791435040