Post-Truth Populism

Saul Newman is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths. His research specialisms are in the politics of right-wing populism, post-truth, and political theology. He is the author of ten monographs, including most recently, Order, Crisis, Redemption: Political Theology after Schmitt (SUNY 2023). He is currently involved in an EU Horizon project on ‘Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age’.Maximilian Conrad is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland. He is a specialist on the politics of post-truth, European integration, and the politics of the EU. He has published extensively on these and related topics, and is leading the Horizon Europe project on ‘Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age’.

• 1. Introduction: Post-truth populism: a new political paradigm?.- Part I: Debating PTP.- 2. Post-truth politics and populism studies: missing forms of trust and facts.- 3. Nostalgic post-truth: towards an anti-humanist theory of communication.- 4. (Anti-)populism and post-truth.- Part 2: Political communications and the media.- 5. The epistemic dimension of populist communication: can exposure to populist communication spark factual relativism.- 6. Refusing to be Silenced: Critical Journalism, Populism and the Post-Truth Condition.- Part III: Counterknowledge and conspiracy theories.- 7. ‘The first in the service of truth': construction of counterknowledge claims and the case of Janša's SDS' media outlets.- 8. A three-step rhetorical model of conspiratorial populism.- Part 4: PTP and democracy.- 9. Populisms in democracies under post-truth pressure: giving new life to public debate or blurring it?.- 10. New turn populism: ideological or epistemic? An inquiry into explanatory models of populism and the meaning of ‘post-truth.- 12. Populist democracy and the post-truth condition.- 13. Conclusion.