The Post-Truth Condition

Philosophical Reflections

Tarun Kattumana, Simon Truwant (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0976-0 (ISBN)

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The Post-Truth Condition: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Tarun Jose Kattumana and Simon Truwant, demonstrates that the absence of a unitary understanding of the phenomenon of post-truth stems from the complex nature of the “post-truth condition” itself. By approaching post-truth as a broad and multi-layered societal issue, the contributors offer an original contribution to the existing scholarship in three ways. First, they show that post-truth can only be adequately understood if it is viewed not only as a political matter, but also as a pervasive cultural phenomenon. Secondly, the contributors concur that a profound understanding of the post-truth condition can only be gained if it is studied through a conceptual, empirical, and historical lens. Lastly, they maintain that a productive understanding of the post-truth condition also demands a nuanced and openminded take on both its negative, reactionary characteristics and its positive, liberating potential. Throughout this volume, philosophy of history, epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and philosophy of art join forces to clarify the pervasive character, dangers, and opportunities of our post-truth condition.

Tarun José Kattumana is PhD candidate in the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Simon Truwant is postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven.

Foreword: The Political Meaning of Truth

Introduction

Part I: Identifying the Problem of Post-Truth

Chapter 1: "So Much Bullshit": Understanding the Salience of the 'Post-Truth Attitude' through Harry Frankfurt

Chapter 2: Post-Truth Paranoia: What Might We Gain from Looking at Post-Truth through a Freudian Lens?

Chapter 3: A Heideggerian Theory of Post-Truth: Idle Talk and Communicative Capitalism

Chapter 4: Collective Self-Deception: Democracy and the Pact of Bad Parrhêsia

Part II: Questioning the Problem of Post-Truth

Chapter 5: The Charge of Relativism: ‘Postmodernism’ and Post-Truth

Chapter 6: "There are No Facts, Only Interpretations": Nietzsche on Truth and Perspectivism in the Age of Post-Truth Politics

Chapter 7: Fairy Tale as Post-Truth, Post-Truth as Fairy Tale: On the Literary Accomplices to a Cultural Condition

Part III: Problematizing the Idea of 'Post-Truth'

Chapter 8: Interrogating the 'Post' of Post-Truth: Five Perspectives from the Vantage Point of Vaccine Hesitancy and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chapter 9: Post-Truth and Politics: A Phenomenological Approach

Part IV: Overcoming Post-Truth

Chapter 10: Boundless Contestation: Post-Truth, Agonism, and Democracy

Chapter 11: Mindchangeability: An Epistemic Counter to Post Truth

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2024
Co-Autor	Brandon Absher, Ahmad Bostani, Iain Campbell
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-6669-0976-9 / 1666909769
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0976-0 / 9781666909760
Zustand	Neuware