Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challenges

1. Introduction: Engaging relativism and post-truth; Ulf ZackariassonPart I: The Promise of Relativism2.Relativism versus Absolutism: The Sense of Relativism that Leibniz and Hegel Grasped but Plato didn't; Steve Fuller3.Postmodern Relativism as Enlightened Pluralism;Raphael SassowerPart II: Post-truth as Social Condition and Truth-game4.Post-Truth, Social Media, and the "Real" as Phantasm; Michael Sawyer5. A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge; Morteza Hashemi and Amir R. BagherpourPart III: Relativism and the Academy6.On Extrapolation in Trans-cultural Dialogues: The Example of the Use of Einstein´s Theories of Relativity in the Discourse of Relativism; Bengt Gustafsson7. Mental Health Diagnosis - is it relative or universal in relation to culture?; Valerie DeMarinis8.Critique of Human Rights Universalism; Elena NamliPart IV: The Threat of Relativism9.Scientism and Utopia: New Atheism as a Fundamentalist Reaction to Relativism; Steven LeDrew10. The Barbarian in Rome and the Cultural Relativism Debate; Mattias Gardell11. Relativism as a Challenge to Religion: Christianity, Truth and the "Dictatorship of Relativism"; Mikael Stenmark.