The Ground Trembling under our Feet. Truth, Politics and Solitude
by Mirko Alagna
pp. 110-129 Issue 12 (6,2) – July-December 2019 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2019.6. 2.7
Abstract
Fake news, Post-Truth are now entries into the ordinary language of contemporary politics to denote – with anxiety and concern – the definitive rupture of the relationship between truth and politics. A relationship that has never been idyllic and that cannot be, constitutively, idyllic, but which now seems to have reached a point of no return. Glossing the reflections of Hannah Arendt in Truth and Politics and pointing out two areas of “political licence” – that is, two areas where, inevitably, politics cannot be judged on parameters of truth – this contribution aims to treat the weakness of shared truths not as a cause of the crisis of democracies, but as a symptom of a more radical problem, an extreme subjectivism that leads to loneliness and intolerance towards any relationship based on trust.