Endless Babbling and the Contradictory Nature of Truth in the Rise of Trump

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004431607_002

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Abstract

This chapter examines how the rhetoric within the Trump campaign, and subsequent administration, has epitomized a dangerous understanding of truth-telling within a modern democratic context. During the administration itself, Trump’s own reactions to the events in Charlottesville revealed a relativistic sense of truth and values with his “many sides” comments. These examples illustrate a larger contradiction within the Trump regime of “telling it like it is” and rejecting “political correctness” (speaking truth, in other words) through baseless claims on immigration, climate change, voter fraud, and many other issues, while at the same time retreating to relativism when caught in moral and epistemological crises. Using Foucault’s analysis of truth-telling in ancient Greece, I suggest that Trump represents an athuroglossos, or an endless babbler, who poses dangers to the ethical exchange of truth within democratic dialogue. Such an analysis also has important implications for the role of truth and truth-telling within social discourse and analysis, especially among researchers working from anti-foundational paradigms that may wish to clarify relational accounts of truth and contrast them with the baseless claims to truth currently espoused by Trump & co.

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On the Question of Truth in the Era of Trump

Reihe: Critical Media Literacies Series, Band: 5

ISBN:: 9789004431607

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 16 Apr 2020

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- Philosophie
  - Sozialphilosophie & Politische Philosophie

Front Matter

Foreword

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Endless Babbling and the Contradictory Nature of Truth in the Rise of Trump

Chapter 3 Post-Truth in the Age of Trump

Chapter 4 Twitter and Trumpism

Chapter 5 The Populist Masquerade of Attributing Trump’s Win to “Economic Anxiety” among White Voters

Chapter 6 The Gospel According to White Christian Nationalism

Chapter 7 White Stupidification and the Need for Dialectical Thought in the Age of Trump

Chapter 8 Conclusion

Chapter 9 Afterword: Ecological Catastrophe in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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