In the seventh installment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series “that demands to be read—and the more quickly, the better” (Bookreporter), the brilliant female detective must untangle the complex and bitter history of one of Oslo’s ...
Author: Anne Holt
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781501123467
Category: Fiction
Page: 320
View: 534
In the seventh installment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series “that demands to be read—and the more quickly, the better” (Bookreporter), the brilliant female detective must untangle the complex and bitter history of one of Oslo’s wealthiest families after a celebratory get-together ends in a shocking multivictim homicide. Shortly before Christmas, four people are found shot dead at the home of the Stahlbergs, a wealthy Oslo family of shipping merchants notorious for their miserliness and infighting. Three of the victims are members of the family, and the fourth is an outsider, seemingly out of place. Cake had been set out in the living room and a bottle of champagne had been opened but not yet poured. Yes, family gatherings during the holidays can be difficult, but why did this one become a bloodbath? As Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates the case alongside her longtime police partner, Billy T., motives for the murders emerge in abundance; each surviving member of the Stahlberg family had good reason to want the victims dead. As she searches for the killer, Hanne will once again risk everything to find out the truth. But this time, will she go too far? “When you think of Scandinavian noir, names like Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Camilla Lackberg probably come to mind, not Anne Holt. That may be about to change….Holt consistently delivers in her series. And Beyond the Truth…is her best yet…If you aren’t familiar with Anne Holt’s Hanne Wilhelmsen novels…dive in with this one—number 7—but then do yourself a favor and binge-read the first six” (Entertainment Weekly).
NOT BEYOND Let wish find those who have been practicing injustice. Let wish locate those generation who ... us not beyond justice. PASSION AND TRUTH Let wish describe justice as a thing attempting to set right relationships and people.
“Here a new perspective is opened on the essence of truth [das Wesen der Wahrheit) that is proper for such a poetry, ... to be the most metaphysical of metaphysical philosophemes, is ironically a spiritual conception that is here beyond ...
Author: Herman Rapaport
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9781501729607
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 240
View: 950
The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It is not Rapaport's purpose to debate whether or not truth resides in art. The title points rather to his belief that truth needs to be reconceptualized in the light of continuing efforts to deconstruct and to discredit the notion of truthfulness in art. The question of art's truthfulness persists because truth in art is neither an entity or content that has been injected into the work, nor a transcendental concept or ground that exists outside it. Moreover, when used in relation to art, Rapaport says, truth means something quite different from conventional definitions of the term. Indeed, a central question that informs the book is the return of truth at the far side of its deconstruction. Is There Truth in Art? includes chapters on atonal music, environmental art, modern German and French poetry, contemporary French fiction, experimental French film, and a photograph taken by the National Socialists during the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Determining how truth can be said to occur in these examples, Rapaport maintains, requires analysis in each instance. He draws chiefly upon the thinkers who have radically reformulated questions about truth—Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas—and uses their writings to explore the works under analysis.
In the third chapter, Daniel Tate articulates Gadamer's positive program for moving beyond “aesthetic consciousness” and restoring the connection of art and truth. Central to this program, Tate observes, is the idea that the truth of ...
Author: Cynthia R. Nielsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781538167953
Category: Philosophy
Page: 306
View: 930
This volume features essays from fourteen scholars—both established and rising stars—each of which cover a portion of Truth and Method following the order of the text itself. The result is a robust, historically and thematically rich polyphonic reading of the text as a whole, valuable both for scholarship and teaching
Release on 2016-02-12 | by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Beyond Objectivity and Balance Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman. Many news media events are, thus, “produced as artifacts from the technical manipulation of the medium and its coded elements [...] It is this generalized substitution of the ...
Author: Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317500001
Category: Social Science
Page: 164
View: 265
This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which is fundamental to the contemporary study of journalism. The book aims to move forward the discussion of truth in the news media by dissecting commonly used concepts such as bias, objectivity, balance, fairness, in a philosophically-grounded way, drawing on in depth interviews with journalists to explore how journalists talk about truth.
Unlike scientific discourse , philosophical discourse is beyond truth and falsity . There is more at stake here than just the dignity of philosophy . At issue is the possibility of a unified scientific understanding in which human ...
Author: Vann McGee
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 0872200876
Category: Philosophy
Page: 258
View: 258
Awarded the 1988 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. Published with the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
But for such a sense to be in a position to ordain being, it must situate itself, according to Levinas, in the absolute, over and beyond being if it is to judge between diversity and tyranny. The quest for truth becomes then a crucial ...
Author: Abi Doukhan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781441136244
Category: Philosophy
Page: 192
View: 818
Our era is profoundly marked by the phenomenon of exile and it is has become increasingly urgent to rethink the concept of exile and our stance towards it. This renewed reflection on the problem of exile brings to the fore a number of questions regarding the traditionally negative connotation of exile. Is there not another way to understand the condition of exile? Permeated with references to the 'stranger', the 'other' and 'exteriority', the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas signifies a positive understanding of exile. This original and compelling book distills from Levinas's philosophy a wisdom of exile, for the first time shedding a positive light on the condition of exile itself. Abi Doukhan argues that Levinas's philosophy can be understood as a comprehensive philosophy of exile, from his ethics to his thoughts on society, love, knowledge, spirituality and art, thereby presenting a comprehensive view of the philosophy of Levinas himself as well as a renewed understanding of the wealth and contribution of exile to a given society.
What is the broader significance of this conceptualization? It means that post- truth is not a Foucauldian truth discourse. It is, literally, beyond truth. And the way to understand this is to appreciate the rise of platform capitalism.
Author: Bram Büscher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520976153
Category: Social Science
Page: 254
View: 430
How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous? The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors as they turn to the internet to save nature. It documents how conservation efforts are transformed through the political economy of platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. Developing a novel account of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism, Bram Büscher shows how environmental actors attempt to mediate between structural forms of platform power and the contingent histories and contexts of particular environmental issues. Bringing efforts at wildlife protection in Southern Africa into dialogue with a sweeping analysis of truth and power in the twenty-first century, Büscher makes the case for a new environmental politics that radically reignites the art of speaking truth to power.
opening minds of her children those principles of virtue, and that love of purity, truth and benevolence, ... Bringing them up properly was “far beyond [Truth's] power or means, in more senses than one,” states Gilbert, who, ...
Author: Nell Irvin Painter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393635669
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 384
View: 977
A monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century. Sojourner Truth first gained prominence at an 1851 Akron, Ohio, women's rights conference, saying, "Dat man over dar say dat woman needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches. . . . Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles . . . and ar'n't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women--indeed, for all strong women. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence; yet, unlike them, what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of personality. Now, in a masterful blend of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, eminent black historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths, words, and photographs to uncover the life of a complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend. Inspired by religion, Truth transformed herself from a domestic servant named Isabella into an itinerant pentecostal preacher; her words of empowerment have inspired black women and poor people the world over to this day. As an abolitionist and a feminist, Truth defied the notion that slaves were male and women were white, expounding a fact that still bears repeating: among blacks there are women; among women, there are blacks. No one who heard her speak ever forgot Sojourner Truth, the power and pathos of her voice, and the intelligence of her message. No one who reads Painter's groundbreaking biography will forget this landmark figure and the story of her courageous life.
In this sense, our real-life truth-condition equivalences as instances of (SAT)∗ are beyond truth ascribing or non-epistemic: it does not involve the speaker's certain epistemic attitude toward 'snow is white' (i.e., she ascribes truth ...
Author: Bo Mou
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048126231
Category: Philosophy
Page: 217
View: 800
I have been thinking about the philosophical issue of truth for more than two decades. It is one of several fascinating philosophical issues that motivated me to change my primary re ective interest to philosophy after receiving BS in mathem- ics in 1982. Some serious academic work in this connection started around the late eighties when I translated into Chinese a dozen of Donald Davidson’s representative essays on truth and meaning and when I assumed translator for Adam Morton who gave a series of lectures on the issue in Beijing (1988), which was co-sponsored by my then institution (Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Science). I have loved the issue both for its own sake (as one speci c major issue in the phil- ophy of language and metaphysics) and for the sake of its signi cant involvement in many philosophical issues in different subjects of philosophy. Having been attracted to the analytic approach, I was then interested in looking at the issue both from the points of view of classical Chinese philosophy and Marxist philosophy, two major styles or frameworks of doing philosophy during that time in China, and from the point of view of contemporary analytic philosophy, which was then less recognized in the Chinese philosophical circle.
One is intuitively attracted to a propositional content because of its truth . ... Our special , intuitive access is clearly restricted beyond truth and simplicity , to certain kinds of propositions . Which kinds ?
Author: Patrick Greenough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199288887
Category: Philosophy
Page: 268
View: 502
Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing.In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and originalanswers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.
We thank the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement n 229441-CCC, the ANR project BTAFDOC (“Beyond Truth and Falsity: Degrees of ...
Author: Theodora Achourioti
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789401796736
Category: Philosophy
Page: 502
View: 209
This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amsterdam), Truth at Work (Paris), Paradoxes of Truth and Denotation (Barcelona) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Oxford). Studying the nature of the concept of ‘truth’ has always been a core role of philosophy, but recent years have been a boom time in the topic. With a wealth of recent conferences examining the subject from various angles, this collection of essays recognizes the pressing need for a volume that brings scholars up to date on the arguments. Offering academics and graduate students alike a much-needed repository of today’s cutting-edge work in this vital topic of philosophy, the volume is required reading for anyone needing to keep abreast of developments, and is certain to act as a catalyst for further innovation and research.
It is the cause of knowledge and truth; and so, while you may think of it as an object of knowledge, you will do well to regard it as something beyond truth and knowledge and, precious as these both are, of still higher worth.
Author: Andrew Louth
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780199291403
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 245
View: 668
Andrew Louth traces the Christian mystic tradition from Plato, through figures such as Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine and explores the diverse and conflicting influences to be found in Christian spirituality.
At those times we may be said in some sense not to know what is true and what is false—to live, as it were, beyond truth and falsity. It is un- likely that this shall be so across the board. As Williams emphasizes, even the choice, ...
Author: Jeremy Elkins
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812206227
Category: Political Science
Page: 352
View: 598
Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evidence and argument in public life, human rights, and even religion. On the other hand, there is considerable anxiety that such appeals threaten individualism and political plurality. This anxiety, Elkins and Norris contend, has perhaps been greatest in the humanities and in political theory, where many have responded by either rejecting or neglecting the whole topic of truth. The essays in this volume question whether democratic politics requires discussion of truth and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics. While individual essays approach the subject from different angles, the volume as a whole suggests that the character of our politics depends in part on what kinds of truthful inquiries it promotes and how it deals with various kinds of disputes about truth. The contributors to the volume, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, argue that these are important political and not merely theoretical questions.
If this is doubted , go and ask of death ; seek an answer in the tomb , and from its loathsome accompaniments ; and you get at the truth , as respects the body . But the weightier truth is beyond explanation , being beyond sense ...
Release on 1978 | by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
I am sure we are going far beyond truth in lending . Mr. O'CONNOR . Just one thing . There are about three other elements in the automobile transaction . It is clearly true that there are a lot of dealers making money out of the ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
That a salvational Power would advent to make the fulfilment of human beings possible beyond their condition of iniquity is the truth of religion. But does the Power indeed become manifest? Is religion true?
Do not say that the sun never rises , say rather that it does rise , but that the truthmaker for this truth is not ... GOING BEYOND THE RATIONAL CONSENSUS We come now to a very important point , one that I have learnt from Peter van ...
Author: D. M. Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521547237
Category: Philosophy
Page: 174
View: 633
This book, first published in 2004, makes a compelling case for truthmaking and its importance in philosophy.
"Truth in a Box: The Limits of Justice through Judicial Mechanisms," in The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing, ... "The New Landscape of Transitional Justice," in Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Beyond truth versus ...
Author: Nneoma V. Nwogu
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015073654090
Category: History
Page: 131
View: 573
Shaping Truth, Reshaping Justice is the first scholarly analysis of the Nigerian truth commission and provides academic material for a comparative study of African truth commissions. It relates to other academic analyses of truth commissions by uniquely providing an exposition and examination of the Nigerian truth experience.
A question, then, typically demands some aspect of the truth, rather than the whole truth. ... If this is right then a question may as well 108 CHAPTER FIVE: BEYOND FIRST-ORDER CHAPTER FIVE: BEYOND FIRST-ORDER TRUTHLIKENESS Questions, ...
Author: G. Oddie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789400946583
Category: Philosophy
Page: 236
View: 745
The concept of likeness to truth, like that of truth itself, is fundamental to a realist conception of inquiry. To demonstrate this we need only make two rather modest aim of an inquiry, as an inquiry, is realist assumptions: the truth doctrine (that the the truth of some matter) and the progress doctrine (that one false theory may realise this aim better than another). Together these yield the conclusion that a false theory may be more truthlike, or closer to the truth, than another. It is the aim of this book to give a rigorous philosophical analysis of the concept of likeness to truth, and to examine the consequences, some of them no doubt surprising to those who have been unduly impressed by the (admittedly important) true/false dichotomy. Truthlikeness is not only a requirement of a particular philosophical outlook, it is as deeply embedded in common sense as the concept of truth. Everyone seems to be capable of grading various propositions, in different (hypothetical) situations, according to their closeness to the truth in those situations. And (if my experience is anything to go by) there is remarkable unanimity on these pretheoretical judge ments. This is not proof that there is a single coherent concept underlying these judgements. The whole point of engaging in philosophical analysis is to make this claim plausible.