“Post-truth” as an ontological error in a global media and academic discourse
Journal: Studia Humanitatis (Vol.2022, No. 2)Publication Date: 2022-07-25
Authors : Khroul V.;
Page : 19-19
Keywords : post-truth; truth; journalism; media research; terminological correctness;
Abstract
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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