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The death of truth : notes on falsehood in the age of Trump / Michiko Kakutani.
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- ISBN: 9780525574828 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 208 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Subject: | Truthfulness and falsehood. Truth. |
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- Baker & Taylor
The former "New York Times" critic examines the cultural forces and trends that have contributed to the decline of objective truth and the rise of subjectivity over factuality and common values, and points toward a new path for these truth-challenged times. - Baker & Taylor
A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic offers an analysis of our current conditionâa world where truth has become an endangered speciesâand presents a new way forward for our truth-challenged times. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â¢Â From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning critic comes an impassioned critique of Americaâs retreat from reason
We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases.
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How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trendsâoriginating on both the right and the leftâthat have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant.
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With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged times.
