JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Social Critic as Liar: Wilde, Adorno, and the Crisis of Post-truth Politics.

  • Published In: Theory & Event, 2023, v. 26, n. 1. P. 128 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Giamario, Patrick T. 3 of 3

Abstract

How does one speak the truth in a "post-truth" polity? This article turns to Oscar Wilde and Theodor Adorno to develop an account of critique as mendacious truth-telling that mobilizes the aesthetically pleasing, world-reconstructing power of lying embraced by contemporary neofascists on behalf of democratic social transformation. Rejecting demystification and empirical truth-telling as incapable of responding to the post-truth predicament, the critic as liar combats the "false lies" of neofascism by devising "fine lies" that imagine new, more egalitarian modes of social organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Theory & Event. 2023/01, Vol. 26, Issue 1, p128
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:2572-6633
  • DOI:10.1353/tae.2023.0006
  • Accession Number:161528607
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