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Post-Truth

Glăveanu, Vlad Petre orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6029-6718 (2023) Post-Truth. In: Glăveanu, Vlad Petre, (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 1319-1325. ISBN 978-3-030-90913-0

Abstract
This entry examines the phenomenon of post-truth in its relation to the notion of the possible. It starts by outlining the roots and main characteristics of the post-truth context, including its relation to politics, social media, and post-modernist assumptions about the relativity of truth. While the spread of falsehoods and lies is not uncommon across the history of society, what makes the current trend particularly alarming is the fact that we are dealing with more than distortions of what is true; we are witnessing a growing disregard, in the case of some individuals and groups, of reality itself. To overcome the pitfalls of relativist accounts, what we need is a recognition of the fact that the possible is not the opposite of the real but its ever-present companion. And, also, that cultivating possibilities, including in the form of “possible truths,” should be guided by ethical question about what these truths “do” for self, others, and society.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:post-truth; misinformation; post-modernism; relativism; possible; ethics
Subjects:Social Sciences > Mass media
Social Sciences > Political science
Social Sciences > Social psychology
Social Sciences > Sociology
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Possibility Studies
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Official URL:https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-030-90...
Copyright Information:Author
ID Code:33121
Deposited On:18 Aug 2026 13:39 by Tam Nguyen . Last Modified 18 Aug 2026 13:39
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