On the concept of “post-truth”

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21119/anamps.41.5-16

Keywords:

truth, objectivism/subjectivism, representation crisis, meaning.

Abstract

The author argues that journalists and politicians refer to the concept of post-truth in the wrong way. The source of this error is maliciously intentional, maintained by some intellectual writers of our time; and the misconception is also produced by unofficial or official voices of neoliberalism in political power. In addition, this mistaken idea exists also due to the old premise conceived as a common thought of positivism, the idea of the existence of a single possible truth and that it answers to logical derivations. This article attempts to explain that the single source of truth in a modern, democratic society is only science, which still has a lot to clarify regarding truth, especially after the linguistic twist as well as the gradual but strong development of interpretation as a method for reaching the truth, with the worthy support of semiotic sources, based on the 2nd Wittgenstein, Saussure, Peirce, Bakhtin, Eco, Barthes, and others.

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Author Biography

Carlos María Cárcova, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Doctor en Derecho por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Profesor Titular Emérito de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Director del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas “Ambrosio L. Gioja” de la Facultad de Derecho de la Univesidad de Buenos Aires

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Published

2018-08-15

How to Cite

CÁRCOVA, C. M. On the concept of “post-truth”. ANAMORPHOSIS - International Journal of Law and Literature, Porto Alegre, v. 4, n. 1, p. 5–16, 2018. DOI: 10.21119/anamps.41.5-16. Disponível em: https://periodicos.rdl.org.br/anamps/article/view/446. Acesso em: 22 oct. 2024.

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): janeiro-junho

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