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Universitas Philosophica

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MANRIQUE, Carlos A.. TRAJECTORIES OF MODERN RELATIVISM AND ITS POLITICAL ONTOLOGY: IN BETWEEN POST-TRUTH AND HYPER-TRUTH. Univ. philos. [online]. 2019, vol.36, n.72, pp.151-172. ISSN 0120-5323.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uph36-72.trmo.

This article problematizes the extended diagnosis regarding the relation between truth and politics, or politics and lies, mobilized by the term post-truth. First, it puts into question the presumed historical novelty that the term signals to, reminding us how Western political philosophy has always been marked by the anxiety towards the threathening force of an orphan and erratic discourse with no consciousness and no referent. Second, it indicates the limitations of the reproach against the presumed withdrawal of rationality and veracity from politics, insofar as it fails to take into account the extent to which there is operative nowadays, in a hegemonic tecno-scientific discourse, a production of a certain truth of the social. In order to attend to this other angle of the relation between truth and politics one needs to displace the view from the field of electoral politics, to the field of techniques of government. Third, the article argues that there is a structural coherence between the hyper-truth in which these government techniques operate, and the inescrupulous strategic interest in the realpolitik of electoral politics, a coherence that is anchored in the ontological and epistemological premises of the modern conception of the political. Finally, the article underlines the critical potency that the theoretical legacy of post-structuralism offers to us, facing this landscape.

Keywords : post-truth; political ontology; governmentality; post-structuralism.

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