Steve Fuller

A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition

The Name of the Game

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781785276033
• ISBN-10: 1785276034
• Artikelnr.: 59987120

Autorenporträt

Steve Fuller is Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, UK. 

Inhaltsangabe

A Word to the Reader
Acknowledgements
Introduction: How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Post-Truth Condition
Post-Truth Breaks Free of Reason's Own Self-Imposed Chains
Post-Truth Is About Finding a Game One Can Win
The Fate of Truth, Reason and Reality in the Post-Truth Condition
Capitalism, Scientism and the Construction of Value in the Post-Truth Condition
Public Relations as Post-Truth Politics, or the Marketization of Everything
The New York Times Gets the Post-Truth Treatment
Science as the Offer That Can't Be Refused in the Post-Truth Condition
Will Expertise Survive the Post-Truth Condition?
Will Universities Survive the Post-Truth Condition?
'Research Ethics' as Post-Truth Playground
Why Ignorance - not Knowledge - Is the Key to Justice in the Post-Truth Condition
A Pandemic Seen through a Post-Truth Lens
Thinking in the Fourth Order: The Role of Metalepsis in the Post-Truth Condition
The Path from Francis Bacon: A Genealogy of the Post-Truth Condition
Conclusion: How to Put Yourself in the Post-Truth Frame of Mind
References
Index.