"How is fruitful discussion possible?" This book addresses the central philosophical issue of how reason shall be understood and how it is limited. Inspired by Wittgensteinian ideas, Strandberg develops a new way of understanding discussion, truth and rationality and shows how the solution can be used to answer the accusation against Wittgensteinian philosophy for being overly conservative.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The unfruitfulness of rationalistic discussion of religious beliefs; Religious belief and the diverse ways we deal with the world around us; Problems of relativism; The demand for universality; The objectivity of truth; How is fruitful discussion possible?; Wittgenstein, conservatism, and fideism; Philosophy of religion and enlightenment thinking; Bibliography; Index.

Hugo Strandberg is based in the Department of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.