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Truth in the Public Sphere.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498530835
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Truth in the Public SphereDDC classification:
  • 302.2
LOC classification:
  • BD171.T788 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Discourse and Communication -- 1 Toward an Activist Theory of Language -- 2 Habermas's Account of Truth in Political Communication -- II: Ethics and Justice -- 3 One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell -- 4 The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives -- 5 Jacques Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure around Truth -- III: Journalism and Politics -- 6 #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement -- 7 Motivated to Ignore the Facts -- 8 Telling the Truth about War in Six Words -- IV: Visual Media, Art, and Aesthetics -- 9 A Special Kind of Authenticity -- 10 No Doubt -- 11 Light and the Truth in Painting -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth in the everyday world of human communication. Featuring an international group of contributors from across the humanities and social sciences, it explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Discourse and Communication -- 1 Toward an Activist Theory of Language -- 2 Habermas's Account of Truth in Political Communication -- II: Ethics and Justice -- 3 One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell -- 4 The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives -- 5 Jacques Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure around Truth -- III: Journalism and Politics -- 6 #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement -- 7 Motivated to Ignore the Facts -- 8 Telling the Truth about War in Six Words -- IV: Visual Media, Art, and Aesthetics -- 9 A Special Kind of Authenticity -- 10 No Doubt -- 11 Light and the Truth in Painting -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth in the everyday world of human communication. Featuring an international group of contributors from across the humanities and social sciences, it explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art.

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