The Problem of Post-Truth. Rethinking the Relationship between Truth and Politics

Zusammenfassung

»Post-truth« is a failed concept, both epistemically and politically because its simplification of the relationship between truth and politics cripples our understanding and encourages authoritarianism. This makes the diagnosis of our »post-truth era« as dangerous to democratic politics as relativism with its premature disregard for truth. In order to take the step beyond relativism and »post-truth«, we must conceptualise the relationship between truth and politics differently by starting from a »non-sovereign« understanding of truth.