The Power of Post-truth

The editor is Salvo Vaccaro (University of Palermo).

Soft Power invites submissions of articles of 6,000 to 6,500 words, including footnotes, concerning:

Political Theory and Post-Truth

In November 2016, Oxford Dictionaries nominated Post-Truth word of the year, «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief».

Is it ever thinkable a political theory embedded in the reality? What are the constituencies of truth in politics? Is a political theory still able to capture the signals of fracture between political will and free formation of political will via mass- and social media? What did changed in the relationship between truth and lying in politics, from Plato to Arendt via Nietzsche? Which kind of ethos shall survive in a post-truth era?

Soft Power invites submissions of articles of 6,000 to 6,500 words, including footnotes, concerning these themes: Politics, Political Theory, Policies, Accountability, Information/Communication, Public Opinion, Vote, Free Mind, Truth/Power, Lying.

Philosophical, theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary articles are welcome. All articles are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review process. Articles must be written in English or in Spanish. Abstracts and keywords must be in English as well as in Spanish in order to facilitate the inclusion in international databases and indexing services.

Papers (with Name, Title, little Abstract – max 20 lines – and Keywords) should be sent to info@softpowerjournal.com.

DEADLINES: Full Article must be received by June 1st, 2019 (acceptance of the papers shall be communicated by September 1, 2019).

For any further information: info@softpowerjournal.com