Truth Matters: A Critical Exercise in Revisionism
Willie van Peer
translated Katarzyna Kręglewska
This article provides findings on the status of „truth” in recent academic discourse.Willie van Peer suggests undertaking a critical analysis of some recent debates, using the term „revisionism” for this enterprise. Author elaborates on various methodolo- gies concerning the status of truth: revelatory, formal, and empirical notion of truth, as well as theories rejecting the notion of truth altogether. These considerations lead to the conclusion that the subject of literary studies would profit considerably from any attempt to increase semantic precision of invoked notions of truth.
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