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CLOSURE

We are lost, both as individuals and as a culture. For over 2,000 years we

have believed in the possibility of a single true account of the world. Now

this age, the age of truth, is coming to a close. As a result there is much

unease. In the new relative, post-modern era, there is no unique history,

no agreed morality, and no uncontested knowledge. In their place a mass

of alternative and sometimes incompatible theories, from ‘chaos’ and

‘string’ theory to ‘fuzzy logic’ and ‘consilience’, proposing a theory of

everything. Closure is a response to this crisis: a means to understand our

experience and our circumstances in an age without truth. It is a radically

new story about the nature of ourselves and of the world.

Instead of seeing the world as a thing, a universe, whose truths we

might uncover through for example the procedures of science, Closure

proposes that we regard the world as open and it is we who close it

through our stories. The resulting framework offers solutions to the central

questions of contemporary philosophy: the character of language and

meaning, of the individual and consciousness, of truth and reality. As a

theory of knowledge Closure has dramatic consequences for our under-

standing of the sciences, changing what we think science does and how it

is able to do it. It also accounts for why we need and desire both art and

religion. It reshapes our understanding of ourselves and the organisation

of society, our goals and our capacity to achieve them. But above all it

makes sense of where and who we are.

A superb new account of how order is created out of disorder, Closure is

an exhilarating work of conceptual geography.

Hilary Lawson is a philosopher, journalist and documentary film-maker.

He is the author of Reflexivity: the Post-Modern Predicament and Dismantling Truth:

Reality in the Post-Modern World.

CLOSURE

A story of everything

Hilary Lawson

London and New York

First published 2001

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

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or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Lawson, Hilary.

Closure : a story of everything / Hilary Lawson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Philosophy. I. Title.

B72 .L378 2001

110–dc21

00-054369

ISBN 0-203-99579-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0–415–01138–8 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–13650–4 (pbk)

Lawson - Closure- A Story of Everything.pdf

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