Truth in the Public Sphere

Jason Hannan is assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg.

• Introduction: Truth as First Casualty in American PoliticsPart I: Discourse & CommunicationChapter 1: Towards an Activist Theory of LanguageChapter 2: Habermas’s Account of Truth in Political CommunicationPart II: Ethics and JusticeChapter 3: One Word Does Not a Whole Story Tell: Contested Truth on a Highway Historical MarkerChapter 4: The Tragic Action and Revolutionary Intent of Black Lives: The Historical Chapter 5: Jacques Rancière, Mass Education, and the Linguistic Adventure Around TruthPart III: Journalism and PoliticsChapter 6: . #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement: On Truth and Lies in an Affective SenseChapter 7: Motivated to Ignore the Facts: The Inability of Fact-Checking to Promote Truth in the Public SphereChapter 8: Telling the Truth About War in Six WordsPart IV: Visual Media, Art, & AestheticsChapter 9: A Special Kind of Authenticity: The Portrayal of Civilian Deaths and Injuries in Vernacular Soldier PhotographyChapter 10: No Doubt: The Politics of Photography in Antonioni’s Blow-UpChapter 11: Light and the Truth in Painting: Thinking Blumenberg’s Absolute Metaphor of Light through CézanneAbout the Contributors

In short, the authors of this book succeed in presenting the truth in different contexts communication, but also according to a variety of media (traditional and digital). [Translated from original French]