Truth in the public sphere /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hannan, Jason, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
Subjects:
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.