Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society

​1. Introduction: Engaging relativism and post-truth; Ulf Zackariasson.- Part I: The Promise of Relativism.- 2. Relativism versus Absolutism: The Sense of Relativism that Leibniz and Hegel Grasped but Plato didn’t; Steve Fuller.- 3. Postmodern Relativism as Enlightened Pluralism;Raphael Sassower.- Part II: Post-truth as Social Condition and Truth-game.- 4. Post-Truth, Social Media, and the “Real” as Phantasm; Michael Sawyer.- 5. 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. Bagherpour.- Part III: Relativism and the Academy.- 6. On Extrapolation in Trans-cultural Dialogues: The Example of the Use of Einstein´s Theories of Relativity in the Discourse of Relativism; Bengt Gustafsson.- 7. Mental Health Diagnosis – is it relative oruniversal in relation to culture?; Valerie DeMarinis.- 8. Critique of Human Rights Universalism; Elena Namli.- Part IV: The Threat of Relativism.- 9. Scientism and Utopia: New Atheism as a Fundamentalist Reaction to Relativism; Steven LeDrew.- 10. The Barbarian in Rome and the Cultural Relativism Debate; Mattias Gardell.- 11. Relativism as a Challenge to Religion: Christianity, Truth and the “Dictatorship of Relativism”; Mikael Stenmark.