Is het nog mogelijk om constructieve en respectvolle publieke debatten te voeren over het klimaat, transgenderatleten of klassenjustitie? Terwijl desinformatie, populisten en internettrollen ons proberen te misleiden, buitelen ook goedbedoelde en redelijke argumenten over elkaar heen in alsmaar chaotischer discussies. Hoe geraken we uit dit kluwen zonder mensen of hun standpunten uit te sluiten? Dit boek maakt komaf met zowel het 'post-truth' gevaar dat we geen waarheden meer erkennen als ...

The 1929 encounter between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of continental philosophy. At the same time, many commentators have questioned the philosophical profundity and coherence of the actual debate. In this book, the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the Davos debate, Simon Truwant challenges these critiques. He argues that Cassirer and Heide...

The Post-Truth Condition: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Tarun Kattumana and Simon Truwant, demonstrates the absence of a unitary understanding of the phenomenon of post-truth stems from the complex nature of the “post-truth condition” itself. By approaching post-truth as a broad and multi-layered societal issue, the contributors offer an original contribution to the existing scholarship in three ways. First, they emphasize that the post-truth condition is not just a politic...

This is the first comprehensive volume in English on Cassirer's philosophy for over seventy years. Eleven leading Cassirer scholars address all of the key aspects of Cassirer's multi-faceted thought and situate them in the wider context of his philosophy of culture. Their essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a philosophical enterprise that still awaits recognition as one of the most original contributions to twentieth-century philosophy. Interpreting Cassirer will prove invaluable ...