Truth in the Public Sphere

✍ Scribed by Jason Hannan

Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Has truth become a casualty of America's increasingly caustic and volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group of contributors from across the humanities and social sciences, this collection is a definitive supplement to theoretical debates about the meaning and status of truth.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: Discourse and Communication
1 Toward an Activist Theory of Language
2 Habermas’s Account of Truth in Political Communication
II: Ethics and Justice
3 One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell
4 The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives
5 Jacques Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure around Truth
III: Journalism and Politics
6 #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement
7 Motivated to Ignore the Facts
8 Telling the Truth about War in Six Words
IV: Visual Media, Art, and Aesthetics
9 A Special Kind of Authenticity
10 No Doubt
11 Light and the Truth in Painting
Index
About the Contributors

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