Post-truth : knowledge as a power game / Steve Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Steve, 1959- author.

Series:

Key issues in modern sociology.

Key issues in modern sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Power (Social sciences).

Truth.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Political culture--History--21st century.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2018.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction: science and politics in a post-truth era: pareto¿s hidden hand

Brexit: political expertise confronts the will of the people

What philosophy does and does not teach us about the post-truth condition

Sociology and science and technology studies as post-truth sciences

The post-truth about academia: undiscovered public knowledge

Appendix: prolegomena to a deep history of ¿information overload¿

Science customisation: a project for the post-truth condition

The performance of politics and science on the playing field of time

Forecasting: the future as the post-truth playground

The argument in a nutshell

Glossary

References.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Aug 2018).

ISBN:

9781783086962

1783086963

9781783086955

1783086955

OCLC:

1504513193