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100 1 _aLee, Theresa Man Ling.
245 1 0 _aPolitics and truth :
_bpolitical theory and the postmodernist challenge /
_cTheresa Man Ling Lee.
260 _aNew York :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c�1997.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 243 pages).
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-234) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- pt. 1. Historical overview: Plato: truth, nontruth, and legitimate power. Hobbes: the science of politics -- pt. 2. Contemporary conundrum: Weber: rationalization and politics. Foucault: discursive politics and the modern state. Arendt: totalitarianism and the human condition -- pt. 3. Conclusion: The politics of truth in context: the case of China. Politics, truth, and democratic practice.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
520 _aThe political momentum gathered by the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals has made the notion of truth more central than ever in politics. Postmodernism maintains that the philosophical validation of ideas by way of truth is intrinsically linked to the legitimation of power. In this political context Lee considers a series of related questions. Why does it matter politically how truth is validated? Does the claim to having truth necessarily imply a certain claim to authority by those who possess truth? Is truth therefore power? Is a foundationalist notion of truth antidemocratic by implication? Is a contextualist notion necessarily democratic, as the postmodernists suggest? Politics and Truth examines the treatment of these problems in the work of thinkers ranging from Plato and Hobbes to Weber, Foucault, and Arendt. The book concludes with a consideration of ideology in post-Mao China that shows the elusive if not illusory openness of contextualism.
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