Post-Truth - Knowledge As A Power Game
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Post-Truth - Knowledge As A Power Game

Knowledge As A Power Game

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Post-Truth - Knowledge As A Power Game

Knowledge As A Power Game

About this book

'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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Information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781783086948
eBook ISBN
9781783086962
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction. Science and Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Pareto’s Hidden Hand
  10. Chapter 1 Brexit: Political Expertise Confronts the Will of the People
  11. Chapter 2 What Philosophy Does and Does Not Teach Us about the Post-Truth Condition
  12. Chapter 3 Sociology and Science and Technology Studies as Post-Truth Sciences
  13. Chapter 4 The Post-Truth about Academia: Undiscovered Public Knowledge
  14. Chapter 5 Science Customization: A Project for the Post-Truth Condition
  15. Chapter 6 The Performance of Politics and Science on the Playing Field of Time
  16. Chapter 7 Forecasting: The Future as the Post-Truth Playground
  17. The Argument in a Nutshell
  18. Glossary
  19. References
  20. Index