Open AccessFrom post-democracy to post-truth politics : the crisis of contemporary democracy in three analytical moves.
Author(s) -
Lidia Lo Schiavo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
soft power, revista euro-americana de teoría e historia de la política/soft power
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2539-2239
pISSN - 2389-8232
DOI - 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.12
Subject(s) - democracy , politics , representation (politics) , capitalism , political economy , phenomenology (philosophy) , e democracy , epistemology , political science , sociology , liberal democracy , social science , law , philosophy
This essay is aimed at thematising the topic of post-truth in the ‘post-democratic’ constellation. From this perspective, it firstly illustrates contents and features of the broad concept of post-democracy, therefore analysing both the issue of the crisis of democracy and the impact of contemporary neoliberal platform capitalism on these process. Hence, it addresses the related topics of new technologies and changes in political communication, along with the unfolding of the neo-populist phenomenology. A number of concluding meta-theoretical reflections on the relationship between democracy, knowledge and political representation are also developed.