(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia

A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault

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ID11342103
AuthorsMareike Gebhardt (0000-0003-1044-1777, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume49
Issue2
Pages178-191
Publication date2023-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy & Social Criticism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0191-4537 • E-ISSN: 1461-734X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01914537221147843
OpenAlexW4319443647
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

Following tropes of light and dark in Amanda Gorman’s poem ‘The Hill We Climb’, the article explores, from a feminist perspective, who counts as a truth-teller. Against the backdrop of Hannah Arendt’s and Michel Foucault’s works on truth-telling, the article theorizes feminist modes of truth-telling. It scrutinizes truth-making in politics while unearthing the andro-centrism in truth-telling. Under the impression of post-truth rhetoric in recent populist landscapes, the article argues for a feminist and intersectional articulation of truth-telling to disclose the gendered and racialized power relations in contemporary masculinist populism

Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Politics · Populism · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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