The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century

Auteur

Arvydas Griinas is a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology. He is an author of Politics with a Human Face: Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe (Routledge, 2018).

Texte du rabat

A study of the dimming of the Enlightenment, this volume will appeal to scholars of social and political theory and political anthropology.

Contenu

Introduction: Rethinking Post-Truth Part I. What is This? 1. As the Enlightenment Dims 2. Sources of Post-Enlightened Truth 3. The Problematic Nexus of the East of Europe Part II. What is it Like? 4. Memetic Reality 5. Meontological Action 6. Performative Power Part III. Now What? 7. Living in the Shadows: Modalities of Truth 8. Politics of the Void 9. Politics of Truth Conclusion: Lessons from the East of Europe