A Political Theory of Post-Truth

Author:   Ignas Kalpokas
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9783319977126


Pages:   135
Publication Date:   28 August 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ignas Kalpokas
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319977126


ISBN 10:   3319977121
Pages:   135
Publication Date:   28 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Post-Truth: The Condition of Our Times 3. Enabling Post-Truth: Mediatisation and Affect 4. Making the Theory Political 5. Conclusion: For unto Us Post-Truth Is Born

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“In A Political Theory of Post-Truth, Ignas Kalpokas offers a nuanced and lucid description of the conditions and content of a post-truth world, drawing particularly on the work of the seventeen-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza with support from the twentieth-century post-structuralist Gilles Deleuze. Going beyond cliches and superficial diagnosis, this is a perceptive, yet alarming, vision of an ever-more embedded post-truth future … .” (Roderick Howlett, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2019)​


In A Political Theory of Post-Truth, Ignas Kalpokas offers a nuanced and lucid description of the conditions and content of a post-truth world, drawing particularly on the work of the seventeen-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza with support from the twentieth-century post-structuralist Gilles Deleuze. Going beyond cliches and superficial diagnosis, this is a perceptive, yet alarming, vision of an ever-more embedded post-truth future ... . (Roderick Howlett, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2019)


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Ignas Kalpokas is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Development in the Department of Social Sciences at LCC International University, Lithuania, and Lecturer in the Department of Public Communication at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

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