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Reconfiguring Truth and Fiction: New Theoretical Perspectives on Post-Truth Politics

Political Theory
Knowledge
Post-Modernism
Power
P448
Lars Dorren
Leiden University
The Politics and Practice of Truth: Critical and Interpretive Perspectives on the Relationship Between Evidence and Policy in Post-Truth Times

Building: Faculty of International and Political Studies, Floor: Ground, Room: 040

Thursday 11:15 - 13:00 CEST (10/09/2026)

Abstract

This panel collects contributions that offer new theoretical perspectives on the phenomenon of post-truth by discussing how the phenomenon impacts our current thinking about democratic values and decision-making.

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