Democracy in the Post-Truth Era: Restoring Faith in Expertise Grygienc Janusz
Democracy in the Post-Truth Era: Restoring Faith in Expertise Grygienc Janusz The world of post-truth is a world of intense disinformation, an offensive of pseudoscience and widespread scepticism…
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Democracy in the Post-Truth Era: Restoring Faith in Expertise Grygienc Janusz
The world of post-truth is a world of intense disinformation, an offensive of pseudoscience and widespread scepticism about expert knowledge. The liberal-democratic politicians have had to take up the gauntlet thrown down to them in this way. It is a world in which the terms of the political game are imposed by illiberal democrats who undermine the authority of scientific institutions.
Liberal theorists have never attempted to confront the pessimistic vision of a world in which citizens cannot distinguish expert from pseudo-expert and science from pseudo-science. However, according to the book's author, they have not been followed by liberal theorists. The dominant liberal theories are based on the assumption that citizens are either competent to participate in major political decisions or that they can easily acquire such competence.
The book strikingly explores a very different