Post-truth and the failure of truth: an analysis of national and international scientific literature

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https://doi.org/10.47208/sd.v26i3.2816

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Pós-verdade, Notícias Falsas, Democracia Liberal

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the national and international scientific production regarding the post-truth phenomenon. The review resulted in 145 articles that were categorized into six fields of knowledge. The analysis shows that the topic began to develop in 2016 - in the context of the USA elections and the EU referendum in the United Kingdom - and since then has spread and branched out. The theoretically ground is givern by Alain Badiou's philosophical discussion about the truth. In our understanding, the post-truth operates in a systematic way through strategies of covering and distorting reality. By proceeding in this way, it is seen as another manifestation of capitalism's agony, which erodes the institutional bases of liberal democracy, its institutions, and ideology, confronting normal science and the dominant public opinion, in favor of the interests of capital itself.

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Thaís Cristina Felipelli Vaquero, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Mestranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da UFSC. Especialista em Gestão Empresarial pela FGV e Economista pelo Mackenzie.

Renê Birochi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Professor adjunto de Administração na graduação e pós-graduação em Administração da UFSC. Doutor em Administração pela FGV sendo visiting scholar convidado da École des Hautes Études Commerciales - Université de Montréal. Mestre em Administração pela USP. Especialista em Finanças Executivas pelo Insper. Graduado em História na PUC/SP.

Gabriela Gonçalves Silveira Fiates, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Professora adjunta na graduação e pós graduação em Administração da UFSC. Doutora em Engenharia de Produção na UFSC. Mestre em Engenharia de Produção na UFSC. Graduada Engenheira Mecânica pela UFSC.

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2020-12-15

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Vaquero, T. C. F., Birochi, R., & Fiates, G. G. S. (2020). Post-truth and the failure of truth: an analysis of national and international scientific literature. Sociedade Em Debate, 26(3), 58-73. https://doi.org/10.47208/sd.v26i3.2816

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Vol. 26 No. 3 (2020): Sociedade em Debate

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