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My essay “The Problem of Post-Truth” has just been published in Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation. I argue that the diagnosis of a “post-truth era” is wrong and dangerous. Yet its popularity attests to the fact, that the diagnosis strikes a nerve. So what is that problem that gives rise to the wrong diagnosis of a “post-truth era” yet is not correctly understood by the diagnosis?

If you have missed my talk or want to see it again, there is now a video. There are further existing talks in the lecture series “Frankfurter Positionen 2018/19” which you can finde on the
poster.

In the new issue on “crime” of metamorphosen, you will find a short polemical piece against crime fiction. Why? The short answer is that the genre intends to prevent solidarity with criminals and their crimes. I do have a longer answer, complete with reasons and arguments, but it won’t fit in a simple post. You can find it in the journal though.

We, the editors of the Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, have written a short article for the blog praefaktisch. In it, we report about the aims, obstacles and joy of running an open-access online journal.

Martin Nonhoff and I are organising the spring conferecne of the DVPW-Section Political Theory and History of Ideas in March 2019. The conference topic (and title) is “Democracy and Truth”. You can find the call for papers by clicking on “Read more” or download it as a PDF . Both are in German, though, as this will be the conference language.

I have writen a small teaser for my book The Spell of Responsibility on the RLI blog. Read it on https://www.rowmaninternational.com/blog/against-responsibility.