In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills
the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate. Democratic
institutions and the rule of law have always been constructed and
legitimized by discourses of truth. And so the issue of "post-truth" or
"fake truth" can be regarded as a contemporary degeneration of that
legitimacy. But what, precisely, is post-truth from a theoretical point
of view? Can it actually change perceptions of law, of institutions and
political power? And can it affect our understanding of society and
social relations? What are its ideological premises? What are the
technical conditions that foster it? And most importantly, does it have
anything to teach lovers of the truth? Pursuing an interdisciplinary
perspective, this book gathers both well-known and newer scholars from a
range of subject areas, to engage in a philosophical interrogation of
the relationship between truth and law.