Abstract
The term “post –truth”, that is believed to have made its maiden appearance in a 1992 essay, pertaining to the Iran-Contra Scandal and Persian Gulf War, garnered widespread popularity, in the form of "post-truth politics" recently on account of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the U.K. Brexit referendum. In fact, it was a political culture in which public opinions and media narratives have become almost entirely disconnected from the substance and policy of legislation. Interestingly such a relatively recent concept that has been vaulted up in an age of Twitter threads and viral news has its roots in post-modernity, relativism, even in the philosophical notions of Nietzsche, Weber, Leo Strauss, Foucault and Derrida, who were inevitably sceptical of the division between facts and values.
Highlights
This is post-truth era, where borders blur between truth and lies, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and non-fiction as mentioned in The Post-Truth Era by Ralph Keyes
Instead in a rapidly changing world dominated by cyberspace, literary and cultural studies must hopefully navigate our dizzying epoch of post truth politics and ecological urgency
The term “post –truth”, that is believed to have made its maiden appearance in a 1992 essay, pertaining to the Iran-Contra Scandal and Persian Gulf War, garnered widespread www.ijellh.com e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406
Summary
This is post-truth era, where borders blur between truth and lies, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and non-fiction as mentioned in The Post-Truth Era by Ralph Keyes. The inability to discern fact from fiction which came to be known as “post-truth” forms the www.ijellh.com e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406
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