IDS: The Post-Truth, the Un/Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Contemporary Anxieties and Present Possibilities

From what was the Oxford Dictionary’s “international word of the year” in 2016 to a term

that allegedly defines an era in which we now live, this course will seek to understand

and evaluate the phenomenon that is “post-truth” and the anxieties—but also the

possibilities—that it represents. We will take a close look at works in the Western

philosophical tradition often thought to be responsible for the undermining of “truth”

alongside key texts that some believe can help us think critically about truth once

again—even as their critics worry that these same works “thin out” our view of truth

thereby contributing to the problems we face!

Figures and approaches covered include: Parmenides, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,

Heidegger, Derrida, Baudrillard, feminist theory, the Gospel of John, Jeff Dudiak,

Hendrik Hart, Michel Henry, and Lambert Zuidervaart.

Neal DeRoo and Nik Ansell
2400AC W26
Online Synchronous
Tuesdays, 6pm - 9pm

(MA, PhD)

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