Charting a new path toward a comprehensive conception of truth by examining strengths and weaknesses of twentieth-century German philosophical approaches, Zuidervaart's 'critical retrieval' adroitly moves beyond the sterile isolation of these approaches from their Anglophone brethren and from each other.
Dan Dahlstrom, Silber Professor of Philosophy, Boston University; author of Heidegger's Concept of Truth
Lucidly and succinctly Lambert Zuidervaart critically retrieves crucial insights into truth from seminal writings in twentieth-century German philosophy. The dynamic dialogues he constructs speak to the main concerns of contemporary theories, while showing the limitations of their focus on propositional truth. His book takes important steps toward the development of a more comprehensive conception, in which truth, intersecting with goodness, calls for societal transformation.
Maeve Cooke, Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin
In his meticulously researched and elegantly written new book, Lambert Zuidervaart offers an account of the adventures of the concept of truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School. This informative and insightful new work has done scholars and students of critical theory and modern German philosophy a huge service.
James Gordon Finlayson, Director of the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex
A timely must-read for anyone interested in truth, objectivity, justification, and authentication. Countering the idea of a 'post-truth' age, Zuidervaart situates propositional truth within a more comprehensive conception of truth extending beyond the academy to other domains of public life.
Barbara Fultner, Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Denison University; translator of Jürgen Habermas's Truth and Justification
...an outstanding contribution to the theory of truth as well as to post-Kantian European philosophy in general.
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Lambert Zuidervaart delivers a clear, compact, and analytically ordered book with an engaging narrative spine.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
