Truth in the Public Sphere (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hannan, Jason

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Has truth become a casualty of America's increasingly caustic and volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group of contributors from across the humanities and social sciences, this collection is a definitive supplement to theoretical debates about the meaning and status of truth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498530835
• Artikelnr.: 47041583

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jason Hannan - Contributions by David I. Backer; Chris Balaschak; Makeda Best; Charles Bingham; Christopher Gilbert; Lewis A. Friedland; Francis Halsall; Jason Hannan; Thomas Hove; Jeffrey W. Jarman; Spoma Jovanovic; Yacine Kout; Paul Lawrie; Je

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Truth as First Casualty in American Politics Part I:
Discourse & Communication Chapter 1: Towards an Activist Theory of Language
Chapter 2: Habermas's Account of Truth in Political Communication Part II:
Ethics and Justice Chapter 3: One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell:
Contested Truth on a Highway Historical Marker Chapter 4: The Tragic Action
and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives: The Historical Chapter 5: Jacques
Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure Around Truth Part
III: Journalism and Politics Chapter 6: .
#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement: On Truth and Lies in an Affective Sense
Chapter 7: Motivated to Ignore the Facts: The Inability of Fact-Checking to
Promote Truth in the Public Sphere Chapter 8: Telling the Truth About War
in Six Words Part IV: Visual Media, Art, & Aesthetics Chapter 9: A Special
Kind of Authenticity: The Portrayal of Civilian Deaths and Injuries in
Vernacular Soldier Photography Chapter 10: No Doubt: The Politics of
Photography in Antonioni's Blow-Up Chapter 11: Light and the Truth in
Painting: Thinking Blumenberg's Absolute Metaphor of Light through Cézanne
About the Contributors