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Democracy And Truth - A Short History

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Democracy And Truth: Navigating the Post-Truth Era

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the tenuous relationship between democracy and truth throughout history. Rosenfeld deftly traces the evolution of how democracies have grappled with competing claims and counterclaims, and how the distrust in authoritative sources has led to the rise of a "post-truth" era. Through her analysis, Rosenfeld offers insights into how we can defend the idea of truth in a world that increasingly values opinion over facts.

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ISBN: 9780812250848
Authors: Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date of Publication: 2018-12-31
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Politics, History, Philosophy
Related Topics: History, Politics, History
Goodreads rating: 3.72
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"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies--citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no institution or person possessing the authority to settle basic disputes in a definitive way.The problem may be novel in some of its details--including the role of today's political leaders, along with broadcast and digital media, in intensifying the epistemic anarchy--but the challenge of determining truth in a democratic world has a backstory. In this lively and illuminating book, historian Sophia Rosenfeld explores a longstanding and largely unspoken tension at the heart of democracy between the supposed wisdom of the crowd and the need for information to be vetted and evaluated by a learned elite made up of trusted experts. What we are witnessing now is the unraveling of the d�tente between these competing aspects of democratic culture.In four bracing chapters, Rosenfeld substantiates her claim by tracing the history of the vexed relationship between democracy and truth. She begins with an examination of the period prior to the eighteenth-century Age of Revolutions, where she uncovers the political and epistemological foundations of our democratic world. Subsequent chapters move from the Enlightenment to the rise of both populist and technocratic notions of democracy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the troubling trends--including the collapse of social trust--that have led to the rise of our "post-truth" public life. Rosenfeld concludes by offering suggestions for how to defend the idea of truth against the forces that would undermine it.
 

Democracy And Truth: Navigating the Post-Truth Era

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the tenuous relationship between democracy and truth throughout history. Rosenfeld deftly traces the evolution of how democracies have grappled with competing claims and counterclaims, and how the distrust in authoritative sources has led to the rise of a "post-truth" era. Through her analysis, Rosenfeld offers insights into how we can defend the idea of truth in a world that increasingly values opinion over facts.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.