Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesars deceptive PR machine to the cover-ups that caused Chernobyl....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814215968)
Analyzes the political rhetoric of the US right and mainstream left from the 2010s to 2020s, arguing for a reconceptualization of the post-truth narrative and highlighting strategies used by oppressed communities to counter disinformation--...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814259580)
In Truth Be Told, Laura Elliot Tetreault challenges the idea that the post-truth present is a novel crisis brought about by contemporary right-wing and digital media. Instead, the political control of truth has always been central to...Lasīt vairāk
A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B...Lasīt vairāk
A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855801316)
A feminist introduction to emerging philosophical understandings of gaslighting.Originating in a 1938 play, the term gaslighting has become part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we truly know what it means? This collection o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108834216)
Jens Timmermann provides a detailed philosophical, developmental and historical analysis of Immanuel Kants 1797 essay On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity, in which Kant argues that it is criminally wrong to lie to protect a friend fr...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation, the post-truth phenomena of anti-science sentiments and illiberal tendencies. The authors within wish to raise awareness and reflection t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855803495)
Illuminates the power in bearing witness as an ethical orientation toward the world and its people. In The Witness as Educator, David T. Hansen examines the idea of bearing witness. He shows how it constitutes an ethical orientation that...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school educational policy and how this links to political motives in a post-truth world. In recent years, gaslighting has...Lasīt vairāk
This book draws on the thought of Thomas Aquinas to provide an innovative approach to the ethics of lying and truthfulness. It offers a definitive interpretation of Aquinass thought on the morality of lying, and it makes a novel contribution to the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury YA, ISBN-13: 9781547614950)
The Summer I Turned Pretty meets Hes All That in this charming YA contemporary romance set against the backdrop of the Catskills, where two teens must unravel the lies theyve told each other to have a real chance at love. ...Lasīt vairāk
Photography, Truth and Reconciliation charts the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. The book examines the prevalence of photography in cultural responses to processes of truth and reconciliation, an...Lasīt vairāk
Robert Doughten Savile, aka Doughty, is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and certain that the wealth and high status that he believe...Lasīt vairāk
Two New York artists tumultuous friendship gets turned on its head when one of them goes missing and the other may be to blame. A riveting debut novel for readers of Bunny, Luckiest Girl Alive, and Who Is the Bad Art Friend?I ho...Lasīt vairāk
Two New York artists tumultuous friendship gets turned on its head when one of them goes missing and the other may be to blame. A riveting debut novel for readers of Bunny, Luckiest Girl Alive, and Who Is the Bad Art Friend?I ho...Lasīt vairāk
