¿Cuánta verdad necesita el hombre?

Synopsis of ¿Cuánta verdad necesita el hombre?

How Much Truth Does Man Need? is an essay by the German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski, published in 2013 by Tusquets Editores. In this book, Safranski explores the human need to believe in truths, both concrete and abstract, and how this longing can lead to dogmatism and totalitarianism. The author analyzes human consciousness as a divided subject, separated from itself and from nature, and how the search for lost unity drives the creation of universal and absolute concepts. Safranski advocates irony and detachment as tools to avoid the dangers of dogmatism and totalitarianism, remembering that truths are constantly generated by ourselves.