Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene: On Science, Belief, and the Humanities

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

In Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene, Barbara Herrnstein Smith addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled "relativism." Practicing that relativism, she argues, does not mean refusing judgment or asserting absurdities but being conscious of the existence and significance of contingency, complexity, and multiplicity. Rejecting classic and neorealist views...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785420704
• ISBN13: 9781785420702
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Open Humanities Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"