Politics and Truth

Politics and TruthConsiders the contested concept of truth in contemporary politics in light of the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals and examines the treatment of truth in an unusual lineup of thinkers ranging from Plato and Hobbes to Weber, Foucault, and Arendt. The political momentum gathered by the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals has made the notion of truth more central than ever in politics. Postmodernism maintains that the

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This book is a timely analysis of the securitisation of Islam in the US and an original contribution to securitisation theory by introducing the notion of ‘indirect securitising speech acts’ and the role of emotions and affect in securitisation studies

this handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline

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