Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

by Arpad Szakolczai

Book Overview

It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land - an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.

The first part of the book presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032126450
• ISBN13: 9781032126456
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"