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2018 | 66 | 143-161

Article title

Post-Truth as a Feature of Hypermodern Times

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Post-prawda jako cecha hipernowoczesności

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In this paper I will defend the idea of the success of post-truth as one of the main features of hypermodernity. In order to understand such a claim, I will start by defining “post-truth” and showing the key differences that separate it from simple manipulation or lies. I will explain how post-truth characterizes a whole new way of understanding the difference between truth and falsity: a new attitude of indifference to the sharp distinction that moderns and ancients had placed between these two notions. I will contend that this new attitude had been announced by the work of at least three recent philosophers: Harry Frankfurt, Gianni Vattimo and Mario Perniola. They give different names to “post-truth”, though, and attribute it to different causes (from anti-intellectualism to the new media and to sheer carelessness). After that, I will explore how two key aspects of hypermodernity (according to Gilles Lipovetsky), i.e. hyperindividualism and hyperconsumption, cohere with this spread of post-truth. Finally, I will summarily refer to some political and geopolitical events that corroborate the relevance of post-truth in our hypermodern world.
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W artykule tym będę bronił tezy, że sukces post-prawdy jest jedną z głównych cech hipernowoczesności. By twierdzenie to uczynić jak nalepiej zrozumiałym, zacznę od zdefiniowania post-prawdy i pokazania, co odróżnia ją od prostej manipulacji oraz kłamstw. Wyjaśnię, jak post-prawda odnosi się do rozumienia różnicy między prawdą i fałszem, wskazując na nowe podejście polegające na indyferencji wobec ostrego rozróżnienia, które starożytni i nowożytni wprowadzili pomiędzy tymi dwoma pojęciami. Wykażę, że podejście to zostało już zapowiedziane przez trzech współczesnych filozofów: Harry’ego Frankfurta, Gianniego Vattimo i Mario Perniolę, choć nazywali oni post-prawdę na różne sposoby i wskazywali różne jej przyczyny (od antyintelektualizmu, po nowe media i czystą beztroskę). Następnie zbadam, jak dwa kluczowe aspekty hipermodernizmu (według Gillesa Lipovetsky’ego), mianowicie hiperindywidualizm i hiperkonsumpcja, wiążą się z rozprzestrzenianiem się post-prawdy. Na koniec, pokrótce odniosę się do wydarzeń o charakterze politycznym i geopolitycznym, które potwierdzają, że post-prawda jest istotnym zjawiskiem hipernowoczesnego świata.

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143-161

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