Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 42 No. 4, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi42409
The Hidden History of “Post-Truth"
Predrag Krstić
; Univerzitet u Beogradu, Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Kraljice Natalije 45, RS–11000 Beograd
Abstract
The article critically analyses the recent discourse on “post-truth” and addresses the long-term current efforts to determine the epistemic and social status of truth. The first part of the article attempts to define the reason for the appearance and scope of conceptual intervention of the recently popular term “post-truth”. The second part of the paper is devoted to the “prehistory of post-truth” and the introduction of the concept of one authoritative truth in the monotheism of early Judaism. The author then presents contemporary critiques of the fixation of thinking on truth and proposals for a “different thinking”. In the last part of the paper, the author points out the contradiction of situating truth between the extremes of its absolutisation and relativisation, and the necessity of philosophy to dwell in it.
Keywords
truth; post-truth; monotheism; absolutism; relativism; Friedrich Nietzsche; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Richard Rorty; Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Hrčak ID:
303618
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Publication date:
28.12.2022.
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