Një parahistori e post-të-vërtetës në Lindje dhe Perëndim
A pre-history of post-truth, East and West
Author(s): Marci ShoreSubject(s): Communication studies, Sociology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Social Theory
Published by: Shtëpia Botuese Bard Books
Keywords: post-truth; postmodernism; mauvaise foi; facts; dissent; ideology;
Summary/Abstract: Postmodernism was conceived in large part by the Left as a safeguard against totalizing ideologies. Yet today, ideas that originated in the critical sensibility of the Left have been have been appropriated on behalf of an encroaching neo-totalitarianism of the Right. Did postmodernism’s critique of the ontological stability of truth unwillingly create the conditions of possibility for “post-truth”? Is French literary theory to blame? And does a philosophy of dissent developed in communist Eastern Europe off era potential antidote?
Journal: SYMBOL
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 73-80
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Albanian