Truth in the public sphere /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Truth as first casualty in American politics / Jason Hannan
- Discourse and communication
- Toward an activist theory of language / David I. Backer
- Habermas's account of truth in political communication / Lewis A. Friedland and Thomas B. Hove
- Ethics and justice
- One word does not a whole story tell: contested truth on a highway historical marker / Spona Jovanovic, et. al.
- The tragic action and revolutionary intent of black lives: the historical genealogies and corporeal dynamics of Cornel West's prophetic pragmatism in post-racial America / Paul R. D. Lawrie
- Jacques Rancière, mass education, and the linguistic adventure around truth / Charles Bingham
- Journalism and politics
- #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement: on truth and lies in an affective sense / Christopher J. Gilbert
- Motivated to ignore the facts: the inability of fact-checking to promote truth in the public sphere / Jeffrey W. Jarman
- Telling the truth about war in six words / Lisa Silvestri
- Visual media, art, and aesthetics
- A special kind of authenticity: the portrayal of civilian deaths and injuries in vernacular soldier photography / Makeda Best
- No doubt: the politics of photography in Antonioni's Blow-up / Chris Balaschak
- Light and the truth in painting: thinking Blumenberg's absolute metaphor of light through Cézanne / Francis Halsal.