Tiziana Andina (editor) - Post-truth, philosophy and law

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the centre 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.

Angela Condello is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Turin, Italy.

Tiziana Andina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy.

Law And Politics: Continental Perspectives

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Names: Condello, Angela, 1984- editor. | Andina, Tiziana, editor.

Title: Post-truth, philosophy and law / edited by Angela Condello and Tiziana Andina.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Law and politics: continental perspectives | Includes bibliographical refreences and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019002256 (print) | LCCN 2019006617 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429450778 (ebk) | ISBN 9781138324664 (hbk)

Subjects: LCSH: Law--Political aspects. | Truth--Political aspects. | Political science--Philosophy.

Classification: LCC JA75 (ebook) | LCC JA75 .P67 2019 (print) | DDC 323.44/501--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002256

ISBN: 978-1-138-32466-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-45077-8 (ebk)

Tiziana Andina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin (Italy). Since 2018 she is the director of the research center, LabOnt Center for Ontology at the University of Turin (www.labont.it). She has been a fellow of Columbia University (20082009) and Kte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Bonn (2015) as well as Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Russia (2014). She has published many articles on philosophy and the philosophy of art in several internationals journals. Her recent work concerns the definition of art and social ontology. Her publications include: Il volto Americano di Nietzsche, La Citt del Sole, 1999; Il problema della percezione nella filosofia di Nietzsche, Albo Versorio, 2005; Arthur Danto: Philosopher of Pop, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011; The Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition. From Hegel to Post-Dantian Theories, Bloomsbury Academy, 2013; An Ontology for Social Reality, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016; What is Art? The Question of Definition Reloaded, Brill, 2017; and (ed. by) Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide. A Companion to Contemporary Western Philosophy, Brill, 2014. She is co-editor of the international series Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law and of the international series Analytic Aesthetics and Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury Academic).

Sanja Bojani is a researcher immersed in philosophy of culture and queer studies, with an overarching commitment to comprehend contemporary forms of gender, racial and class practices, which underpin social and affective inequalities specifically increased in the current political contexts. She studied philosophy and expanded and tailored her interests as a graduate student at the University of Paris 8, where she obtained an M.A. in Hypermedia Studies at the Department of Science and Technology of Information, and an M.A. and Ph.D. at Centre dEtudes fminines et detude de genre, a process that ultimately led to interdisciplinary research based on experimental artistic practices, queer studies and particularities of Affect Theory. She has served as the Information Engineer at the Institut National dHistoire de lArt (Louvre, Paris), Nouvel Observateur (Paris), and Laboratory for Evaluation and Development of Digital Editing, Maison des Sciences de lHomme (Paris Nord, St. Denis). She is the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) and the vice-dean for international cooperation of the Academy of Applied Art at the University of Rijeka.

Angela Condello, Ph.D. (1984), is a legal philosopher. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Torino and University of Roma Tre. She is a Jean Monnet Module Holder (

Jacopo Domenicucci, normalien (Ecole normale suprieure, Paris) and professeur agrg de philosophie, has studied trust since 2014 and digital trust since 2015. On trust, he published Trust As a Two-Place Relation, co-authored with Richard Holton, Oxford University Press, 2017; and Trust, Agency and Discrimination, Rivista di Estetica, 2017; and edited Trusting Institutions, Rosenberg&Sellier, 2018. On digital trust, he published Trust, Extended Memories and Social Media, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; and edited La confiance l're numrique, Berger-Levrault and Rue dUlm, 2018, with Milad Doueihi. His research was presented at the University Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne, University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, University of Minho, University of Turin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), FMSH, and CEM (Paris). At the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge), he has run with Rune Nyrup the Trust and AI Seminar. He is a member of the Cambridge Trust & Technology SRI.

Maurizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin since 1999 and Deputy Rector for Humanities Research. He is President of LabOnt Center for Ontology, Directeur de recherche at the Collge dtudes mondiales (Paris) and advisory member of the Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe (Rijeka) and of the Internationales Zentrum Fr Philosophie NRW. He is doctor honoris causa in Humanities at the University of Flores (Buenos Aires) and at the University of Pcs from 2017. He has been Fellow of Kte-Hamburger Kolleg Recht als Kultur (Bonn) and Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University, New York) and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has also been Directeur dtudes of the Collge International de Philosophie and Visiting Professor at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as other European and American universities. He is columnist for