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Truth

A History and a Guide for the Perplexed

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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Pages
256
Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

About

Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers; from spiritualism to science and from New York to New Guinea. In clear, lucid prose, this little book takes on an enormous subject and makes it understandable to anyone.

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Reviews

"[Fernandez-Armesto's] interesting and challenging book takes us on a whirlwind guided tour of human thought."
The New York Times Book Review
"In this energetic study...the author reaches beyond academe with crisp prose complemented by numerous whisical touches . . . Truth is a beacon of lucidity."
Boston Globe
"Although serious in his intentions, Fernandez-Armesto writes with a light touch, ranging widely over the fields of anthropology, history and philosophy...very timely and eminently readable."
Los Angeles Times

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