Post-Truth Imaginations : New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience

This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these e...

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Other Authors: Rommetveit, Kjetil (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
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