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Post-Truth : Knowledge As A Power Game

by Steve Fuller
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Unravelling the Power Dynamics of Post-Truth

The book explores the roots of the post-truth phenomenon, going back to Plato and Machiavelli, and how it currently affects our politics and understanding of knowledge. It argues that science and politics share a common struggle, but in science the lions (established theories) normally rule until a crisis forces a revolution. The book recommends an academic course of study for a post-truth world, focusing on skills to propagate and deconstruct content, examine risks, and understand the construction of canonical and revisionist histories.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Post-Truth : Knowledge As A Power Game

by Steve Fuller
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ISBN: 9781783086948
Authors: Steve Fuller
Publisher: Anthem Press
Date of Publication: 2018-05-25
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy
Goodreads rating: 3.75
(rated by 20 readers)

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.
 

Unravelling the Power Dynamics of Post-Truth

The book explores the roots of the post-truth phenomenon, going back to Plato and Machiavelli, and how it currently affects our politics and understanding of knowledge. It argues that science and politics share a common struggle, but in science the lions (established theories) normally rule until a crisis forces a revolution. The book recommends an academic course of study for a post-truth world, focusing on skills to propagate and deconstruct content, examine risks, and understand the construction of canonical and revisionist histories.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.