“Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse
The relativisation of truth and the blurring of the boundaries between truth and falsehood in the public sphere are nowadays positioned in media discourse and academic literature as a normal historical process and described by the term “post-truth”. The author proposes to subject its correctness and...
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| description | The relativisation of truth and the blurring of the boundaries between truth and falsehood in the public sphere are nowadays positioned in media discourse and academic literature as a normal historical process and described by the term “post-truth”. The author proposes to subject its correctness and heuristic value to careful critical analysis. “Post-truth” according to the author denotes a fundamentally important essential substitution: truth in it is stripped of its absolute status and placed in the same line with things temporary, finite, conventional – post-communism, post-totalitarianism, post-modernism, post-secularism, etc. Therefore, the author calls to avoid the term “post-truth” since it contains not only a logical, but also an ontological error. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ebbc2ac1786040d089ff410035c14fe92022-12-22T03:40:11ZengInstitute of Modern Humanitarian ResearchesStudia Humanitatis2308-80792022-07-012“Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourseKhroul Victor Mikhaylovich0National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)The relativisation of truth and the blurring of the boundaries between truth and falsehood in the public sphere are nowadays positioned in media discourse and academic literature as a normal historical process and described by the term “post-truth”. The author proposes to subject its correctness and heuristic value to careful critical analysis. “Post-truth” according to the author denotes a fundamentally important essential substitution: truth in it is stripped of its absolute status and placed in the same line with things temporary, finite, conventional – post-communism, post-totalitarianism, post-modernism, post-secularism, etc. Therefore, the author calls to avoid the term “post-truth” since it contains not only a logical, but also an ontological error.https://st-hum.ru/en/node/1121/post-truthtruthjournalismmedia researchterminological correctness |
| spellingShingle | Khroul Victor Mikhaylovich “Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse Studia Humanitatis post-truth truth journalism media research terminological correctness |
| title | “Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse |
| title_full | “Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse |
| title_fullStr | “Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse |
| title_short | “Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse |
| title_sort | post truth as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse |
| topic | post-truth truth journalism media research terminological correctness |
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