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Post-Truth

Post-Truth

Post-Truth

Steve Fuller

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Wimbledon Publishing
Año de edición:
2018
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Teoría social
ISBN:
9781783086948
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’Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ’post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

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