Prolegomena zu einem politischen Begriff der Wahrheit

Autor(en)

Gerald Posselt, Sergej Seitz

Abstrakt

Countering the widespread view that truth and facts have lost their rele-
vance for politics in a supposedly post-truth age, the article argues that the
appeal to truth in the political sphere fulfils multiple functions and is artic-
ulated in various forms. However, political philosophy and theory have so
far largely neglected the truth-politics relation. The article takes a first step
toward remedying this desideratum. To this end, a cartography of political
truth forms is developed along five fault lines: truth as foundation and de-
foundation, truth as coercion and freedom, truth as virtue and scandal,
truth as secret and transparency, and truth as knowledge and practice.
This allows to describe the workings of truth in the political in a differenti-
ated way without reducing it to purely epistemological, moral or power-
political issues.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Philosophie, Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Journal

Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization

Band

16

Seiten

12-25

DOI

https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2023.16.2.1094

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506013 Politische Theorie, 603116 Politische Philosophie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/60057f62-ad2a-446d-9b66-7e0574d9b5a5