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Politics and the Criteria of Truth

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  • © 2010

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  1. Alireza Shomali
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Alireza Shomali
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Project of Political Epistemology: Its Grounds and Method

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    Pages 11-42

  4. Critical Theory, Negative Dialectics, and the Project of Political Epistemology

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    Pages 43-83

  5. Political Epistemology versus Sociology of Knowledge

    • Alireza Shomali
    Pages 84-131

  6. Différance, Deconstruction, and the Project of Political Epistemology

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    Pages 132-169

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 170-172

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 173-220
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In the post-positivist era in which Cartesian epistemology must be overcome we require a normative criterion of truth. Without it rationality of our beliefs and justifiability of our political acts are in question. This study seeks an epistemological criterion of truth that is attentive to the sociopolitical conditions that determine meaning

About the author

ALIREZA SHOMALI is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, USA. He studied political theory at Syracuse University and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

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