Truth The Search for Wisdom in the Pasimodern Age JOHN D. CAPUTO 0 PENGUIN BOOKS‘sin Bnse ptt eps ane Kop oso “veo cena in gnguanaiocane soe ocd Capen Tutor) hn are nels rn ee Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Truth on the Go Modernity and the Eclipse of Teuth What Do We Do with Religious Trth? Letting Truth Be: Augustine, Derrida and the Postmodern Tura |. The Enlightenment and Its Critics: A Short History Postmodern Prophets ‘Truth in the Postmodern Situation 7. The Future of Truth ‘Suggestions for Further Reading Notes IndeAcknowledgements ‘My thanks to my editors at Penguin, Helen Conford and Ananda Pelierin, who invited me to bea patt of this series and who have at every turn in the preparation of this ‘manuscript taken great pains to save me from myself. In the past, I have mostly ttied to take the starch out of a to0-tigd idea of truth, but they have given me an oppor tunity co speak in the affirmative about truth, to say if not swhat i is a least what it does, what is happening inthis litle word.