Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

by Ernest Gellner

Overview

First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner calls enlightenment rationalism, upholds the idea that there is a unique truth, but denies that any society can ever possess it definitively. Learned and stimulating, Professor Gellner’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of postmodernism and the relations between Islam and the West. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the ideological condition of contemporary society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134894987
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	144 KB

About the Author

Ernest Gellner, University of Cambridge

Table of Contents

PREFACE -- POSTMODERNISM, REASON AND RELIGION -- Religious Fundamentalism -- Postmodernism and Relativism -- Relativismus Uber Alles -- The Characters -- The Third Man -- Rationalist Fundamentalism -- NOTES -- INDEX.