Post-Truth, Scepticism & Power

• Main Author: Sim, Stuart (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Postmodernism.; Political philosophy.; Postmodern Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.

"Professor Sim clearly cares for the truth; his is a patient exploration of the phenomenon of post-truth, and a rigorously argued defence of the political and philosophical virtues of holding to the truth. He traces the history of post-truth, following the interweaving discourses of fact, faith...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Truth Will Out?
• 2. The Post-Truth Landscape
• 3. The Pre-History of Post-Truth
• 4. Faith, Truth and Post-Truth in Religious Belief
• 5. Philosophical Scepticism and its Arguments for Relativism
• 6. Postmodern Relativism: Jean François Lyotard Versus Jacques Derrida
• 7. 'Truth Within a Fable'?: Fiction, Truth and Post-Truth
• 8. A Post-Liberal Society?
• 9. Conclusion: Countering Post-Truth.