The Truth about the Truth De-confusing and

Includes essays and excerpts from the works of prominent modern thinkers such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Isaiah Berlin among others.

Walt Truett Anderson's previous books included Reality Isn't What it Used to Be, To Govern Evolution, Rethinking Liberalism, The Upstart Spring and Open Secrets. A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a fellow of the Meridian Institute, an international network of Scholars and practitioners concerned with issues of governance, earning, leadership and the future. He writes regularly for the Pacific News Service and currently serves as president of the American division of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Introduction: What's Going On Here?	p. 1
Themes of Postmodernity	p. 18
What Is Post-Modernism?	p. 26
"I Love You Madly," He Said Self-consciously	p. 31
The Fragile Fiction	p. 34
The Dehumanized World	p. 36
Strategies of Power	p. 40
The Idea of Pluralism	p. 46
The Idea of Culture	p. 53
The Idea of Ethnicity	p. 58
Santa Claus on the Cross	p. 72
The Map Precedes the Territory	p. 79
The Economy of Icons	p. 82
The Play of Substitution	p. 86
How to Speak and Write Postmodern	p. 92
The Orthodox and the Progressive	p. 96
Ironists and Metaphysicians	p. 100
Affirmatives and Skeptics	p. 107
Four Different Ways to Be Absolutely Right	p. 110
Postmodern Blackness	p. 117
The Protean Style	p. 130
The Healthy, Happy Human Being Wears Many Masks	p. 136
The Death of the Self in the Postmodern World	p. 145
Constructing Emancipatory Realities	p. 151
The Postmodernization of Sex and Gender	p. 156
Studying Consciousness in the Postmodern Age	p. 161
Psychotherapy's Own Identity Crisis	p. 170
Gifted Worldmakers	p. 182
Scientists and Their Worldviews	p. 189
Anything Goes	p. 199
Postmodernism and the World's Religions	p. 204
Religio-Secular Society	p. 215
The Opening of the American Mind	p. 224
The Search for Meaning in a Global Civilization	p. 232
Epilogue: The End and Beginning of Enlightenment	p. 239
Notes	p. 245
Contributors	p. 257
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The Truth about the Truth De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World

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