The Saga of Post truth Politics: A Brief Theoretical Sketch
Keywords:
Post-truth, Commoditisation of emotion, Non-reasonAbstract
There is an ontological failure in understanding the term post-truth because the notion of truth itself carries some serious ontological weight with it.In this particular era a statement is treated as true if the audiences desire to be it such. The postness of post-truth politics lies in a broader context that supersedes the direct dichotomy between truth and falsehood. It moves beyond or after the notion of truth.Birth of post-truth politics is the bi-product of the commoditisation of emotion and mass political behaviour in contemporary world when people are being therapeutically alienated from their own rational and intellectual self.The surge and resurgence of right-wing populism as a world-wide phenomenon is the classic specimen of the rise of non-reason in post-truth era.
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