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Ladataan... The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2018; vuoden 2018 painos)– tekijä: Michiko Kakutani (Tekijä)
Teoksen tarkat tiedotThe Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (tekijä: Michiko Kakutani) (2018)
   Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  dllh | Jan 6, 2021 |  This is a nice short book with a great writing style that concisely sums up a lot of the scary things that the trump administration means about how our world is. (  ) katebrarian | Jul 28, 2020 | Michiko Kakutani tries to make sense of the Trump presidency by tracing ideas back to the 1960s while drawing from everyone since Homer to Heidegger. It's repetitive, not very deep, and you're unlikely to learn anything new, but the literary references and notes at the end are interesting. (  ) pod_twit | Mar 30, 2020 | Does exactly what it says on the cover. A short, clear, hard-hitting summary of the violence that Trump and his supporters do to truth, facts, and objective debate, and the dangers that that brings for liberal democracy around the world. There won't be much that is new here for anyone who reads a newspaper from time to time, but Kakutani does join up a few dots here and there to help us understand what's going on, particularly the surprising ways that both the far-right nationalists in the US and their self-invited guests from Moscow are using propaganda techniques that owe as much to Lenin as they do to Goebbels. Kakutani warns us that we can save democracy only by resisting the nihilism and resignation the propagandists are trying to push us into, and suggests that engaging in collective action instead of clicking on endless depressing news stories is the best way to retain a sense of what democracy actually means. (  ) thorold | Jan 21, 2020 | Kakutani masterfully demonstrates how the displacement of objective reality with subjective reality has led to the denigration of truth and the rise of Trump. She has a particular gift for distilling complex, far-reaching ideas into short, elegant explanations; going forward, I plan on using her explanation of postmodernism anytime I’m asked to describe it. A powerful argument for the concept of objective truth. (  ) aechipkin | Jan 8, 2020 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases. How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trends--originating on both the right and the left--that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant. With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged times. No library descriptions found. |
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The book is not comprehensive, but it is certainly terrifying. It's a quick read that I found useful. Kakutani is certainly partisan and makes no real bones about it, so if you seek something that feels like it gives equal consideration to the Trump viewpoint, this is not the book for you. (