Richard Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history from the ancient Greek idea of truth as timeless and unchaning up to the existentialist, sociological, and linguistic approaches of our time.
Richard Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history from the ancient Greek idea of truth as timeless and unchaning up to the existentialist, sociological, and linguistic approaches of our time.
Donald Spence's book, Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis, is so disturbing and so revolutionary, in the sense of essaying so radical and fundamental a critique of our most central clinical...
Were holy men historical figures or figments of the theological imagination? Did the biographies devoted to them reflect facts or only the ideological commitments of their authors? For decades,...
Title: Essays on Historical Truth.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research...
In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that...