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Truth: Philosophy in Transit Paperback – August 20, 2014

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  • Lopez Claudia
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book that you feel
    Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2014
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    This book leads to a wonderful path for anyone who is interested in spirituality and philosophy. I loved it and mostly FELT it. That's what I found amazing about the book, I felt like some feelings and sensations buried inside of me kind of woke up.
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  • Stanley Tanner
    5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful, wonder-filled book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015
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    Stretch your mind beyond it's customary boundaries with this delightful and humorous and frightening work. Welcome to a brave new world, in which only the brave will flourish.
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  • Peter
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2017
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    I think there are a lot of reasons to read this book, most of all a refreshing take on a traditional subject. Putting an ancient and contemporary writers in conversation in a prose style dynamic as it is poetic, I will not forget the new ideas introduced to me here that have the potential to chip off the well worn approach I have had to my own conception of religion. I also thought that Caputo was not overbearing in his portrayal of getting beyond modernity and postmodernist to a post human speculation on what is now becoming of us and our world. I recently watched a video of Caputo's speech on Youtube.com in appreciation of Paul Tillich's thought encountering Derrida's and his passion for the work shines throughout in his speaking and quips on the text he is reading. I'm looking forward to reading more of his work.
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  • Andras Mate-Toth
    5.0 out of 5 stars The book is one the best book of Caputo
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2014
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    The book is one the best book of Caputo! Written not only with very clear arguments but with one literary stile, which makes the reading experience more successful.
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  • Herb Sr.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great work on the word "Truth
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015
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    A great work on the word "Truth." I will reference Caputo's writings in the upcoming conference I will host on, "A search for truth."
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  • Ronald R. Cavanagh
    5.0 out of 5 stars a must read
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2013
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    John Caputo is a gem! He writes with images that moving and move you to see what is not present to hand but critical for your future.
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  • Doug R.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Too much smoke.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2018
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    This book should come with a health warning: smoke can be dangerous. There's a lot of smoke in this book.

    I so much wanted to like this book. The writing has a light, jaunty tone. It starts out quite well in its description of the problems with philosophical traditions of the Enlightenment -- the problem of tying to fit things in categorical boxes when the boxes have leaky edges, the problem that nature resists being cut at its joints.

    The later part of the book isn't too bad either. It does a good job of trying, with a light touch, to explain Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche (trying, but not quite succeeding.)

    But the middle of the book is a car crash. Caputo presents an "example", on which he "pins everything in my little book of truth", of an imagined dialog between Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jackie Derrida. I tried to read this several times, but couldn't get past phrases like "the possibility of the impossible", "religion without religion" and "he truly does not have the truth". I have tried, but I still have no idea what Caputo means when he used the word "Truth". I can only conclude that he is just playing with the words to blow smoke.

    The book ends by revisiting the example. As a conclusion Caputo says "The truth is lodged in the untruth ...". The truth is lost in the smoke.
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  • Dr. John H. Patton
    5.0 out of 5 stars and this book meets all my expectations for clever writing and useful insights.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2015
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    I am a Caputo fan, and this book meets all my expectations for clever writing and useful insights.
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  • Rajiv Chopra
    4.0 out of 5 stars Overall. A Good Read
    Reviewed in India on May 24, 2022
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    John Caputo's book, "Truth" is good. It is a good book to read, and it helps that his style of writing is lucid and easy.

    In general, I fear reading philosophical texts, because most authors believe it is essential, they kill the reader with boredom. John Caputo avoids this approach, and I thank him for it.

    The introduction is brilliant, in particular, the way he uses the words 'sedentary' and 'pedestrian'. From there, he moved to a discussion of truth, as the ancients perceived it, as well as religious texts.
    Then, he explored some "Enlightenment" philosophers, some "Modern" philosophers" as well as "post-modern" ones.

    There is no absolute truth. We know this. In Vedic/Hindu philosophy, we have the Goddess Maya who casts a veil over us. In the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", Jesus asked Pilate - "what is truth? is truth a changing law? what is truth? is mine the same as yours?"

    It's possible to skip the entire book and just focus on those lines in the opera. However, then you'd miss a super romp through the 'history of truth'.

    Keep one thing in mind: he has explored only Western philosophers.

    In other parts of the world, we used to have a more nuanced view of concepts like 'truth'. Not anymore, sadly.
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    An important book in the age of Comrade Trump, but might not satisfy conservatives. This is a book to read and think on.
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  • Tariki
    5.0 out of 5 stars Truth is a journey ( and the journey itself is home )
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2017
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    A good little book where a western philosopher approaches some of the insights that can be found in zen. Caputo, near the end of his own search, says:- "truth to tell, we do not know who we are - and that IS who we are." Maybe some will read that as a cry of despair and run to the nearest absolute, the nearest ultimate definition of Reality. Such would be a mistake. Mr Caputo wends his way between the two poles of relativism and absolutism, which has echoes in the Buddhist rejection of both "eternalism" and "annihilationism", this in favour of the Middle Way - not a position in between but a "no-position that supercedes them both" ( Thomas Merton )

    When the zen master Yunmen was asked what was the teaching of a whole lifetime, he answered:- "An appropriate statement". There is always a word, a thought, an action, that is appropriate each moment - but appropriate for that one moment only. This is neither relativism nor absolutism. As Basho says in his journey to the far north, the journey itself is home, we are all "wayfarers of eternity".

    I was lost myself at times in John Caputo's book, maybe it all went over my head, but not to worry.

    Recommended.
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  • Dr John Turner
    5.0 out of 5 stars a post-post modern travel through truth and the truth to come
    Reviewed in Australia on February 16, 2023
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    A deep thinker’s view on truth that does justice (as in judgement) to religious, enlightenment and post-modern perspectives on truth and where we find ourselves
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  • Buccmaster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very accessibly written, this is a careful and thoughtful ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2017
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    Very accessibly written, this is a careful and thoughtful exploration of what we mean by the idea of 'truth'. As an academic Caputo can use the resources of many thinkers over many centuries, and presents his conclusions persuasively. A really worthwhile read.
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