Section II: Reimagining Truth

Introduction

Having established the modern intellectual's role as a cultural force, we now turn to their first and most fundamental project: the reimagining of truth itself. The thinkers in this section did not merely question specific doctrines; they dismantled the very idea that truth could be objective, universal, or transcendent.

From Nietzsche’s declaration of God’s death to Foucault’s unmasking of power and Derrida’s deconstruction of meaning, we trace a seismic shift. Truth moves from something to be discovered to something to be constructed—or suspected.

This is the intellectual ground zero of the modern crisis. Once truth is unmoored, everything else follows.