TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuller,Steve
TI  - Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game
SN  - 9781783086948
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - lemac
KW  - Sociologia
KW  - Política social
KW  - popin
KW  - SOCIOLOGÍA
KW  - SOCIOLOGY
KW  - TEORÍA SOCIAL
KW  - SOCIAL THEORY
KW  - POLÍTICA
KW  - POLICY
N2  - 'Post-Truth' was Oxford Dictionary's 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers, especially in light of the Brexit and US Presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory. This book reaches back to Plato, ranges across theology and philosophy, and focuses on the Machiavellian tradition in classical sociology. The key figure here is Vilfredo Pareto, who offered the original modern account of post-truth in terms of the 'circulation of elites', whereby 'lions' and 'foxes' vie for power by accusing each other of illegitimacy, based on allegations of speaking falsely either about what they have done (lions) or what they will do (foxes). The defining feature of 'post-truth' is a strong distinction between appearance and reality which is never quite resolved, which means that the strongest appearance ends up passing for reality. The only question is whether more is gained by rapid changes in appearance (foxes) or by stabilizing one such appearance (lions). This book plays out what all this means for both politics and science
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