Abstract

Carrying out the implications and exploring the underpinnings of themes examined in Tradition and Authenticity, Thomas Langan’s latest work, Being and Truth, attempts to explain the foundational framework in which the central question of philosophy must ground itself. Langan seeks to describe the condition for the possibility of a genuinely unified discourse which concomitantly allows for the plethora of differences incarnate in people, institutions, and traditions to be considered duly and to presence themselves fully. Langan identifies as the central and perennial question of philosophy: “How can we entice ourselves to widen our horizons to take into account the experiences of others, which challenge the fragile ideological structures of explanation we have built to cope with the world?”.