Truth in the Public Sphere

Contributions by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best, Charles Bingham, Christopher Gilbert, Lewis A. Friedland, Francis Halsall, Jason Hannan, Thomas Hove, Jeffrey W. Jarman, Spoma Jovanovic University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Yacine Kout, Paul Lawrie, Jeanette Musselwhite, Kelly M. ODonnell, Lisa Silvestri, Shelley Sizemore, Jenny Southard Edited by Jason Hannan

Publication date:

20 October 2016

Length of book:

242 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

229x161mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498530828

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.

Introduction: Truth as First Casualty in American Politics
Part I: Discourse & Communication
Chapter 1: Towards an Activist Theory of Language
Chapter 2: Habermas’s Account of Truth in Political Communication
Part II: Ethics and Justice
Chapter 3: One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell: Contested Truth on a Highway Historical Marker
Chapter 4: The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives: The Historical
Chapter 5: Jacques Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure Around Truth
Part III: Journalism and Politics
Chapter 6: . #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement: On Truth and Lies in an Affective Sense
Chapter 7: Motivated to Ignore the Facts: The Inability of Fact-Checking to Promote Truth in the Public Sphere
Chapter 8: Telling the Truth About War in Six Words
Part IV: Visual Media, Art, & Aesthetics
Chapter 9: A Special Kind of Authenticity: The Portrayal of Civilian Deaths and Injuries in Vernacular Soldier Photography
Chapter 10: No Doubt: The Politics of Photography in Antonioni’s Blow-Up
Chapter 11: Light and the Truth in Painting: Thinking Blumenberg’s Absolute Metaphor of Light through Cézanne
About the Contributors

In short, the authors of this book succeed in presenting the truth in different contexts communication, but also according to a variety of media (traditional and digital). [Translated from original French]