Looking out from the edge of the cliff: history, language, and truth -- Telling the truth: equivocation and mental reservation between morality and hermeneutics -- Writing the truth: Agostino Mascardi and post-Reformation historiography by way of Paul Ricoeur -- Writing the truth: ecclesiastical history and its critics -- Rhetoric, truth, and the Truth -- The sacrament of language and the curse of speech
Summary
Stefania Tutino shows that the hermeneutical and epistemological anxieties that characterize our current intellectual climate are rooted in the early modern world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 14, 2014)