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    14 July 2018
    25 May 2018
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'Post-truth' was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory. Post-Truth reaches back to Plato, ranging across theology and philosophy, to focus on the Machiavellian tradition in classical sociology, as exemplified by Vilfredo Pareto, who offered the original modern account of post-truth in terms of the 'circulation of elites'. The defining feature of 'post-truth' is a strong distinction between appearance and reality which is never quite resolved and so the strongest appearance ends up passing for reality. The only question is whether more is gained by rapid changes in appearance or by stabilizing one such appearance. Post-Truth plays out what this means for both politics and science.

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Contents

  • Frontmatter
    pp i-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp ix-x
  • Introduction: Science and Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Pareto's Hidden Hand
    pp 1-8
  • 1 - Brexit: Political Expertise Confronts the Will of the People
    pp 9-24
  • 2 - What Philosophy Does and Does Not Teach Us about the Post-Truth Condition
    pp 25-52
  • 3 - Sociology and Science and Technology Studies as Post-Truth Sciences
    pp 53-68
  • 4 - The Post-Truth about Academia: Undiscovered Public Knowledge
    pp 69-106
  • 5 - Science Customization: A Project for the Post-Truth Condition
    pp 107-134
  • 6 - The Performance of Politics and Science on the Playing Field of Time
    pp 135-150
  • 7 - Forecasting: The Future as the Post-Truth Playground
    pp 151-180
  • The Argument in a Nutshell
    pp 181-182
  • Glossary
    pp 183-194
  • References
    pp 195-204
  • Index
    pp 205-207

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