1st Edition
The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century As the Enlightenment Dims
Introduction: Rethinking Post-Truth Part I. What is This? 1. As the Enlightenment Dims 2. Sources of Post-Enlightened Truth 3. The Problematic Nexus of the East of Europe Part II. What is it Like? 4. Memetic Reality 5. Meontological Action 6. Performative Power Part III. Now What? 7. Living in the Shadows: Modalities of Truth 8. Politics of the Void 9. Politics of Truth Conclusion: Lessons from the East of Europe
Biography
Arvydas Grišinas is a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology. He is an author of Politics with a Human Face: Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe (Routledge, 2018).
"Arvydas Grišnas has written a 21st century revisiting of the dialectic of Enlightenment. In The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century, he illuminates Eastern Europe as the epistemologically privileged site that reveals the nature of post-truth. Now not only has science produced a Frankenstein that can victimize its creator, but the technology produced by rationalist science has undermined the very understanding of truth as what is empirically verifiable. Our pathological political reality cannot be understood in the absence of what Grišnas explains as the reality of the not-real." - Marci Shore, Yale University, USA
"This book calls on us to incorporate truthfulness as a form of resistance and awareness. The reader is richly rewarded by the author's insights." - Ludger Hagedorn, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna
