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Post-truth: knowledge as a power game

By Steve , Fuller

Book information

Publisher
Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi);Anthem Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781783086931, 1783086939, 9781783086948, 1783086947, 9781783086955, 1783086955
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
360 kB (368364 bytes)
Series
Key issues in modern sociology
Pages
207 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
KnowledgeSociology of;Political culture;Political culture--

Description

'Post-truth' was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory. Post-Truth reaches back to Plato, ranging across theology and philosophy, to focus on the Machiavellian tradition in classical sociology, as exemplified by Vilfredo Pareto, who offered the original modern account of post-truth in terms of the 'circulation of elites'. The defining feature of 'post-truth' is a strong distinction between appearance and reality which is never quite resolved and so the strongest appearance ends up passing for reality. The only question is whether more is gained by rapid changes in appearance or by stabilizing one such appearance. Post-Truth plays out what this means for both politics and science.

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