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The Post-Truth Condition: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Tarun Kattumana and Simon Truwant, demonstrates 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 emphasize that the post-truth condition is not just a political matter but also a pervasive cultural phenomenon. Second, putting forward a nuanced understanding of the post-truth phenomenon requires a combination of conceptual, empirical, and historical analysis. Third, this volume brings together considerations from the philosophy of history, epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and philosophy of art to provide a careful analysis of both the negative and reactionary characteristics of the post-truth phenomenon as well as its positive and liberatory potential.
List of contents
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
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Edited by Tarun Kattumana and Simon Truwant - Contributions by Brandon Absher; Ahmad Bostani; Iain Campbell; Pieter De Corte; Hanika Froneman; Ryan Habermeyer; Erica Harris; Tarun Kattumana; Catherine Koekoek; Michael Patrick Lynch; Lilith Mace; Simon Tru
