Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom.
Why Truth Matters.
Continuum. 2006
Why Truth Matters is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why
modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth.
It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place.
Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, editors of the successful ButterfliesandWheels.com website,
established to ‘fight fashionable nonsense’, identify and debunk such nonsense,
and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms.
Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial,
the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the wilful misinterpretation of
evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking.
Why Truth Matters is both a rallying cry for the Enlightenment vision and an essential read for anyone who has ever been bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia.
