Invitation to the IPW Lecture Democratic Judgment in an Age of ‚Alternative Facts‘.
Lecturer: Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago)
Moderation: Sara Gebh (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna)
When: Thursday, 22. November 2018, 18:30
Where: Konferenzraum, Department of Political Science, NIG, 2nd floor, wing A, Universitätsstr. 7, 1010 Vienna
Abstract:
Post-truth, so it is said, characterizes the universal condition of modern democracies. But what does post-truth really mean? Is truth a register we have now well lost? Are we hopelessly tangled up in a complex web of falsehoods that go under the name of "alternative facts," merely subjective differences of opinion about an objective world we once shared in common? These questions arise in the age of "Trumpism," but they point beyond our historical present to enduring problems for democratic thinking and practice.
An event within the IPW Lectures, an international lecture series of the Department for Political Science, University of Vienna.
