Shattering Silos: Reimagining Knowledge, Politics, and Social Critique

by Lambert Zuidervaart

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Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant?

Shattering Silos, a companion volume to Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation and Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal, provides a path-breaking response. As in his two previous books, Lambert Zuidervaart challenges the boundaries philosophers set up between epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Knowledge, he argues, takes different forms in various social domains, and all are subject to political struggle....

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  • ISBN13 9780228011583
  • Publish Date 15 August 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Language English