The Post-Truth Condition

Foreword: The Political Meaning of Truth |Michael Patrick Lynch
Introduction | Simon Truwant and Tarun Kattumana
Part I: Identifying the Problem of Post-Truth
Chapter 1: "So Much Bullshit": Understanding the Salience of the 'Post-Truth Attitude' through Harry Frankfurt | Simon Truwant
Chapter 2: Post-Truth Paranoia: What Might We Gain from Looking at Post-Truth through a Freudian Lens? | Erica Harris
Chapter 3: A Heideggerian Theory of Post-Truth: Idle Talk and Communicative Capitalism | Brandon Absher
Chapter 4: Collective Self-Deception: Democracy and the Pact of Bad Parrhêsia | Emily Zakin
Part II: Questioning the Problem of Post-Truth
Chapter 5: The Charge of Relativism: 'Postmodernism' and Post-Truth | Lilith Mace and Iain Campbell
Chapter 6: "There are No Facts, Only Interpretations": Nietzsche on Truth and Perspectivism in the Age of Post-Truth Politics | Pieter De Corte
Chapter 7: Fairy Tale as Post-Truth, Post-Truth as Fairy Tale: On the Literary Accomplices to a Cultural Condition | Ryan Habermeyer
Part III: Problematizing the Idea of 'Post-Truth'
Chapter 8: Interrogating the 'Post' of Post-Truth: Five Perspectives from the Vantage Point of Vaccine Hesitancy and the COVID-19 Pandemic | Tarun Kattumana
Chapter 9: Post-Truth and Politics: A Phenomenological Approach | Ahmad Bostani
Part IV: Overcoming Post-Truth
Chapter 10: Boundless Contestation: Post-Truth, Agonism, and Democracy | Catherine Koekoek
Chapter 11: Mindchangeability: An Epistemic Counter to Post Truth | Hanika Froneman
About the Contributors