{"product_id":"the-force-of-truth-9780226827452","title":"The Force of Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A timely intervention into the current debates on post-truth and Foucault’s significance for them. Lorenzini argues, again compellingly, that we need to steer clear of the false dilemma of either conceding that truth is only an effect of power, or strenuously defend the value of absolute truth against fake news and alternative facts. Foucault’s rejection of the Truth—truth understood as timeless and absolute—does not amount to a rejection of truth altogether. Rather, Foucault’s history of truth should be understood precisely as an attempt to criticize the claim that such an understanding of truth is necessary to stop our critical theories and practices from dissolving into relativism.\" -- Johanna Oksala * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lorenzini has established himself as the most brilliant interpreter of the work of Michel Foucault in his generation. Yet, even beyond this distinction, he has learned, as few people have, to use Foucault's work and perspective to approach topics that Foucault himself never discussed. Moreover, in his extraordinary genealogy of truth, presented in this book, Lorenzini brings together Foucault's writings with those of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, among others, to give us a remarkable new way to think about some of the central issues concerning the idea of truth. Anyone who believes that analytic philosophy and continental philosophy cannot speak to one another can read this book as a superb example of how these two traditions of philosophy can mutually contribute, when read together, to the understanding of fundamental philosophical problems. If Lorenzini is the future of philosophy, philosophy is in excellent hands.\" -- Arnold I. Davidson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e\"In this urgent study, Lorenzini offers a powerful corrective to stubborn criticism of Foucault as a postmodern architect of the post-truth age. With stunning command of Foucault’s corpus, Lorenzini reconstructs Foucault’s history of truth as a political epistemology for our troubled times. This extraordinary book reshapes how we should understand—and resist—lying, disinformation, and other forms of political untruth.\" -- Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse University\u003cbr\u003e\"This groundbreaking book refutes the dominant view of Foucault as a relativist and elevates the debate about his notion of truth to a new philosophical level. With exceptional clarity, Lorenzini develops an ethics and politics of truth-telling that is essential reading for everyone who seeks to take responsibility for their claims about the truth—in both theory and practice.” -- Martin Hägglund, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e“In this brilliant and provocative book, Lorenzini upends the conventional way that critics read Foucault as a precursor to our post-truth society. Through a meticulous reading of the Collège de France lectures, Lorenzini masterfully shows how Foucault’s lifelong passion for truth and truth-telling culminates in a powerful theory of truth as a political and ethical practice. A veritable tour de force.” -- Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Writing the History of Truth\u003cbr\u003e A History of Truth That Does Not Rely on “the Truth”\u003cbr\u003e Toward an Ethics and Politics of Truth-Telling\u003cbr\u003e The Force of Words and the Force of Truth\u003cbr\u003e 1. Truth-Event\u003cbr\u003e “A Little History of Truth in General”\u003cbr\u003e The Emergence of the Alethurgic Subject\u003cbr\u003e Confessional Sciences\u003cbr\u003e 2. Regimes of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Truth Obligations?\u003cbr\u003e Games and Regimes of Truth\u003cbr\u003e A Critical (An)archaeology\u003cbr\u003e Language Games and Games of Truth\u003cbr\u003e The Value of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Regimes of Truth and Spirituality\u003cbr\u003e 3. Truth as Force\u003cbr\u003e Cavell, Austin, and the Perlocutionary\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eParrhesia \u003c\/i\u003eas Speech Act\u003cbr\u003e Unpredictability, Freedom, and Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Risk and Courage\u003cbr\u003e Transparency, or \u003ci\u003eParrhesia \u003c\/i\u003eand Rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dramatics of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Alethurgy\u003cbr\u003e Sincerity, Authenticity, Confession\u003cbr\u003e Putting the Truth to the Test of Life\u003cbr\u003e 5. Critique and Possibilizing Genealogy\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Vindicatory-Subversive Dichotomy\u003cbr\u003e Foucault, Habermas, and the Question of Normativity\u003cbr\u003e The Genealogy of Critique\u003cbr\u003e Genealogy and We-Making\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Rethinking Critique\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732931490135,"sku":"9780226827452","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226827452.jpg?v=1719999000","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-force-of-truth-9780226827452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}