Can We Make Truth Great Again: Voix Libres
François Noudelmann
Jan 2025 · Max Milo · AI-narrated by Cole (from Google)
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Since the election of Donald Trump, the practice of political lying has been exercised in the name of relativism. Untruths are disseminated as “alternative facts”: to each his own interpretation. We have entered the age of post-truth. This open door to fake news and manipulation is part of a profound questioning of truth. The aim of this essay is to retrace the path that has led to this relativism over the last forty years or so: the reign of storytelling, the empire of emotion, identity politics, victim ideology, cancel culture, philosophical deconstruction, autofiction and exofiction, the virtualization of the world by artificial intelligence... However, recourse to universal truth and the positivity of facts is no longer possible, as Western reason has suffered a critique without return. So we have to think of other ways to save the idea of truth and the establishment of facts. Nostalgia for the great heroic figures of Reason, from Socrates onwards, must not obscure the passion that nourishes the desire for truth. It is from these affects that the demand for truth can be rekindled: resistance to untruths, the will to convince, the alliance of doubt and indignation are the resources that enable us to still believe in truth.
Since the election of Donald Trump, the practice of political lying has been exercised in the name of relativism. Untruths are disseminated as “alternative facts”: to each his own interpretation. We have entered the age of post-truth. This open door to fake news and manipulation is part of a prof...
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François Noudelmann lives in New York. He is professor of philosophy and literature at New York University. Former president of the International College of Philosophy, he is the author of numerous essays, translated into a dozen languages. He notably published: The touch of the philosophers. Sartre, Nietzsche and Barthes on the piano (Gallimard, 2008, Grand Prix des Muses 2009), Family Airs; a philosophy of affinities (Gallimard, 2012), The genius of lying (Max Milo, 2015), Thinking with the ears (Max Milo, 2019), A completely different Sartre (Gallimard, 2020).
François Noudelmann lives in New York. He is professor of philosophy and literature at New York University. Former president of the International College of Philosophy, he is the author of numerous essays, translated into a dozen languages. He notably published: The touch of the philosophers. Sar...
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