The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America s slide away from truth and reason Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics In The Death of Truth, she connects the dots to reveal the slow march of untruth up to our present moment, when Red State and Blue State America have little common ground, proven science is once up for debate, and all opinions are held to be equally valid And, often than not, rudely declared online The wisdom of the crowd has diminished the power of research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the facts that best confirm our biases.With wit, erudition, and remarkable insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and presents a path forward for our truth challenged times. Best Read [ The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump ] author [ Michiko Kakutani ] – kino-fada.fr Being ReasonableEpistemology learning what it means to be reasonable has become fashionable once again With any luck this might prove to be Donald Trump s most important achievement a backlash against the reality largely his of fake news Unfortunately The Death of Truth is yetfake news not a way to beat it.More formally, epistemology is the study of how we know what we know, of what constitutes a fact, and logically therefore about what constitutes an anti fact, that is a lie see Being ReasonableEpistemology learning what it means to be reasonable has become fashionable once again With any luck this might prove to be Donald Trump s most important achievement a backlash against the reality largely his of fake news Unfortunately The Death of Truth is yetfake news not a way to beat it.More formally, epistemology is the study of how we know what we know, of what constitutes a fact, and logically therefore about what constitutes an anti fact, that is a lie see here for some explanation of epistemology and its current problems It doesn t take much epistemological analysis to determine that Trump lies,or less continuously, about everything he encounters events, people, issues, decisions, statements, whether these are politically relevant or not These lies are endorsed and disseminated by tame media like Fox News and Breitbart which have their own commercial agenda This much is obvious.But what is muchdifficult to establish is the epistemological structure, as it were, of the h...I broke my rule about not reading books with Trump in the title for the ARC of this very solid extended essay by Michiko Kakutani I particularly liked the way she incorporated her extensive reading in fiction and non fiction to provide examples and commentary on today s politics and how we got here Also, good footnotes provide a guide to further reading My big reservation is that the only...As the former chief book critic of The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michiko Kakutani has apparently spent the past three decades noting and commenting on the decline of objective truth in American literature and public life and while she approves of this postmodern paradigm as it relates to art, she has been horrified to watch as disestablishmentarianism has migrated from a necessary Leftist pushback against the military industrial complex to an alt right, drain the swa As the former chief book critic of The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michiko Kakutani has apparently spent the past three decades noting and commenting on the decline of objective truth in A...The truth is this If you like literature, this is the best book you ve read this year If you don t like Trump, this will be the best book you ve read since he descended the gilded escalator And if you don t like the tone of modern politics, it is the best book you ve read in a couple of decades It s informative, extremely well written, and there is no personal mud slinging It s a book about literature and will tell youabout the politics of today and literature than any pundit could The truth is this If you like literature, this is the best book you ve read this year If you don t like Trump, this will be the b...I have a very close friend who is highly intelligent and whose opinion I value I had mentioned to him something about the basketball player Kyrie Irving and his quote that having flown around the world multiple times as an NBA player, he believes the earth is flat I was incredulous that a highly educated man such as Irving who attended Duke University could believe this My friend however had a slightly different view on it Well, we live in a post truth world now You and I may believe that I have a very close friend who is highly intelligent and whose opinion I value I had mentioned to him something about the basketball player Kyrie Irving and his quote that having flown around the world multiple times as an NBA player, he believes the earth is flat I was incredulous that a highly educated man such as Irving who attended Duke Univers...The Death of Truth the book is now available in German Kakutani s book islike a long essay with features of an opinion piece than a thoroughly argued non fiction book The text s strength is clearly that the author, the former chief book critic of The New York Times, draws parallels between current phenomena and how writers like David Foster Wallace or Philip Roth commented on and described them thus, she is highlighting how literature reflects and sometimes even shapes real life EsThe Death of Truth the book is now available in German Kakutani s book islike ...Simply put, this is essential reading if you want to understand, at least in part, the political chaos caused by technology, and perpetuated by those who harness its power for authoritarian purposes.DTT A New Truth is Born Trump, the forty fifth president of the United States, lies so prolifically and with such velocity that The Washington Post calculated that he d made 2,140 false or misleading claims during his first year in office an average of nearly 5.9 a day According to MK, bumping into the truth through the Age of Trump, will be something like finding a needle in a haystack, and check it out later, just in case it s a false one The postmodernist argument that all truths are p DTT A New Truth is Born Trump, the forty fifth president of the United States, lies so prolifically and with such velocity that The Washington Post calculated that he d made 2,140 false or misleading claims during his first year in office ...The Death of Truth is a short book that reads like a long essay The author, Michiko Kakutani, is a well known literary critic and former chief book review editor of the New York Times She is or should be a legend to anyone interested in reading good books and being highly and critically discerning about the books that one reads It is not necessary to agree with all that she writes, although that may well happen It is difficult to be a discerning reader and not pay attention to what she t The Death of Truth is a short book that reads like a long essay The author, Michiko Kakutani, is a well known literary critic and former chief book review editor of the New York Times She is or should be a legend to anyone interested in reading good books and being highly and critically discerning about the books that one reads It is not necessary to agree with all that she writes, although that may well happen It is difficult to be a discerning reader and not pay attention to what she thinks about a book.The book is concerned with the assaults that have come to characterize the Trump Administration, ranging from the theatre surrounding the Press Secretaries that have worked for the President, to the Twitter Feed of the President, to the various public falsehoods that regularly issue in Washington DC and are catalogued b...Immediately below is my preliminary 4 star review Having finished now after acareful re read from the start , I find it necessary to cut the rating to 3 for reasons discussed in the second part of the review Halfway through but I feel I want to put some things out there right now and by the way, although I m early post publication, I m reading a purchased pre ordered ebook, not the holder of an ARC copy.I m not a Trump lover at all I voted for Hillary , but Chapter 1 is a Trump Immediately below is my preliminary 4 star review Having finished now after acareful re read from the start , I find it necessary to cut the rating to 3 for reasons discussed in the second part of the review Halfway through but I feel I want to put some things out there right now and by the way, although I m early post publication, I m reading a purchased pre ordered ebook, not the holder of an ARC copy.I m not a Trump lover at all I voted for Hillary , but Chapter 1 is a Trump Derangement Syndrome disaster that leaves me embarrassed i.e that my disdain for Trump paints me as one who would associate with that mindless rant I really, really wish Ka...

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
  • English
  • 10 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 208 pages
  • 0525574824
  • Michiko Kakutani
  • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump