Truth in the Public Sphere

Description

Has truth become a casualty of America's increasingly caustic and volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group of contributors from across the humanities and social sciences, this collection is a definitive supplement to theoretical debates about the meaning and status of truth. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I: Discourse and Communication 1 Toward an Activist Theory of Language 2 Habermas’s Account of Truth in Political Communication II: Ethics and Justice 3 One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell 4 The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives 5 Jacques Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure around Truth III: Journalism and Politics 6 #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement 7 Motivated to Ignore the Facts 8 Telling the Truth about War in Six Words IV: Visual Media, Art, and Aesthetics 9 A Special Kind of Authenticity 10 No Doubt 11 Light and the Truth in Painting Index About the Contributors