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Post-Truth : Knowledge As A Power Game

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1783086947
ISBN-13 9781783086948
Publisher Anthem Press
Imprint Anthem Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 25th, 2018
Print length 218 Pages
Weight 344 grams
Dimensions 15.50 x 22.90 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification: Social & political philosophySociology
Ksh 5,450.00
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‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

‘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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