Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. This work takes a look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is intended for those who have ever been bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia. A sassy and profound response to [a] cascade of superstition and silliness ... Benson and Stangroom answer the clotted, barely readable sentences of the postmodernists with sentences so clear you could swim in them. There should be a law demanding every purchase of a Jacques Derrida "book" be accompanied with a free copy of this shimmering, glimmering answer.