Truth in the public sphere / edited by Jason Hannan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hannan, Jason, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Truth--Social aspects.

Truth.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 207 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. [2016]

Contents:

Introduction : Truth as first casualty in American politics / Jason Hannan

Discourse and communication

Toward an activist theory of language / David I. Backer

Habermas's account of truth in political communication / Lewis A. Friedland and Thomas B. Hove

Ethics and justice

One word does not a whole story tell: contested truth on a highway historical marker / Spona Jovanovic, et. al.

The tragic action and revolutionary intent of black lives: the historical genealogies and corporeal dynamics of Cornel West's prophetic pragmatism in post-racial America / Paul R. D. Lawrie

Jacques Rancière, mass education, and the linguistic adventure around truth / Charles Bingham

Journalism and politics

#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement: on truth and lies in an affective sense / Christopher J. Gilbert

Motivated to ignore the facts: the inability of fact-checking to promote truth in the public sphere / Jeffrey W. Jarman

Telling the truth about war in six words / Lisa Silvestri

Visual media, art, and aesthetics

A special kind of authenticity: the portrayal of civilian deaths and injuries in vernacular soldier photography / Makeda Best

No doubt: the politics of photography in Antonioni's Blow-up / Chris Balaschak

Light and the truth in painting: thinking Blumenberg's absolute metaphor of light through Cézanne / Francis Halsal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Truth in the public sphere

ISBN:

9781498530828

1498530826

OCLC:

957134554