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Indlæser... The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (original 2018; udgave 2018)af Michiko Kakutani (Forfatter)
Work InformationThe Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump af Michiko Kakutani (2018)
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   ) steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |  In The Death of Truth, Michiko Kakutani, longtime book reviewer for the New York Times, ties the undermining of political discourse by Donald Trump and his minions to a longstanding assault on rationality in American culture. Kakutani traces the loss of faith in reason in our politics to the culture wars championed on the right, but also connects it with the postmodern subjectivism of such leftwing culture critics as Jacques Derrida that and inspired a general loss of faith in official American narratives and institutions in the post-Vietnam era. Kakutani agrees with George Orwell that “political chaos is connected with the decay of language” that divorces words from meaning. We have, she says, indeed entered an era of Newspeak that keeps us all in our information silos. Newspeak is exacerbated by the information overload and fragmenting of public attention made worse by new information technologies. She concludes that our democracy needs a new commitment to truth and reason, however difficult that may be to achieve. The book’s tone is too polemical for my taste, but its argument seems sound. 4 stars. (  ) Tom-e | May 5, 2022 |  ) MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 | Though it focuses on Trump, everyone should keep an open mind about how our country has been divided and how the Russian trolls work to keep us that way. ( ) Thomas.Cannon | Dec 7, 2021 |  ) TMLbuds34 | Aug 13, 2021 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases. How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trends??originating on both the right and the left??that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant. With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged No library descriptions found. |
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