In the first in a new series of easily digestible, commute-lengthbooks
of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the
many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the
morning has has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and
public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some
exercise. People used to live within walking distance to the fields in
which they worked, or they worked in shops attached to their homes. Now
we ride to work, and nearly everywhere else. Which may seem an innocent
enough point, and certainly not one on which we require instruction from
the philosophers. But, truth be told, it has in fact precipitated a
crisis in our understanding of truth. Arguing that our transportation
technologies are not merely transient phenomena but the vehicle for an
important metaphor about postmodernism, or even constitutive of
postmodernism, John D. Caputo explores the problems posited by the way
in which science, ethics, politics, art and religion all claim to offer
us (the) "truth," defending throughout a "postmodern," or "hermeneutic"
theory of truth, and posits his own surprising theory of the many
notions of truth. John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary
hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in
the postmodern condition. The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion
Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of
Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, he has spearheaded an idea
he calls weak theology.
