Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challe nges

US: Springer International Publi, 2019. Hardcover. Good. This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a multidisciplinary fashi on. Researchers from astrophysics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, r eligious studies, anthropology, social epistemology and sociology discuss a nd analyse the impact of relativism and post-truth both within the academy and in society at large. The motivation for this multidisciplinary approach is that relativism and post-truth are multifaceted phenomena with complex histories that have played out differently in different areas of society an d different academic disciplines. There is hence a multitude of ways in whi ch to use and understand the concepts and the phenomena to which they refer , and a multitude of critiques and defenses as well. No single volume can c apture the ongoing discussions in different areas in all their complexity, but the different chapters of the book can function as exemplifications of the ramifications these phenomena have had.