HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies (Jan 1993)

Is a non-relativist post-modernism possible? The attempts of William Dean and Wentzel van Huyssteen

  • J. A. Stone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v49i3.2502
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 49, no. 3
pp. 445 – 459

Abstract

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This paper aims at creating a third option to foundationalism and relativism. It criticizes William Dean’s historicist radical empiricism for going too far toward a relativ ist deconstructionism, and Wentzel van Huyss teen’s critical realism for not leaving modernism. Both, however, succeed in creating a third option. This paper examines their respective contributions to a non relativist, reconstructionist post-modernism.