The problem of post-truth : rethinking the relationship between truth and politics
- "Post-truth" is a failed concept, both epistemically and politically because its simplification of the relationship between truth and politics cripples our understanding and encourages authoritarianism. This makes the diagnosis of our "post-truth era" as dangerous to democratic politics as relativism with its premature disregard for truth. In order to take the step beyond relativ- ism and "post-truth", we must conceptualise the relationship between truth and politics differently by starting from a "non-sovereign" understanding of truth.
Author: | Frieder Vogelmann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-510802 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2018.11.2.986 |
ISSN: | 1866-2447 |
ISSN: | 2191-7582 |
Parent Title (English): | Behemoth |
Publisher: | Universität, Br. : Univ.-Bibl. |
Place of publication: | Freiburg |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/10/10 |
Tag: | Hannah Arendt; John Rawls; authoritarianism; political epistemology; post-truth; relativism; truth |
GND Keyword: | Relativismus; Rawls, John; Arendt, Hannah; Wahrheit; Erkenntnistheorie |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 20 |
First Page: | 18 |
Last Page: | 37 |
Note: | The problem of post-truth : rethinking the relationship between truth and politics von Frieder Vogelmann ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitung |
HeBIS-PPN: | 45568801X |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |