{"id":1290,"date":"2017-02-06T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:51:29","slug":"post-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/post-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Ewald | Post-Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fran\u00e7ois Ewald<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nothing is flimsier than a political regime indifferent to truth; but nothing is more dangerous than a political system intending to prescribe truth. The function of &#8220;truth-telling&#8221; cannot adopt a legal form, and likewise it would be vain to think that truth resides by its own right within the spontaneous games of communication. The task of truth-telling is a never ending work: it is an obligation from which nobody can be spared, to respecting its complexity. Lest the silence of servitude becomes imposed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The issue of \u201cpost-truth\u201d is not a new one. On the contrary, it includes the line of questioning regarding the task of truth-telling within the political debate.\u00a0We will try to shed light on the Nietzschean texts devoted to truth, leaning on a reading of Michel Foucault\u2019s own reading of those texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fran\u00e7ois Ewald &#8220;Nothing is flimsier than a political regime indifferent to truth; but nothing is more dangerous than a political system intending to prescribe truth. The function of &#8220;truth-telling&#8221; cannot adopt a legal form, and likewise it would be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/post-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38974],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-9-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}