Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler

01.10.2021

"We live in a ‘post-truth’ society, in which truth has become irrelevant and the underbelly rules the public debate, it is said. In my talk, I suggest otherwise. The ‘crisis of truth’ is not happening because the truth is irrelevant but because everyone claims to speak the truth. Therefore, I advocate new philosophical research into the precise relationship of truth, democracy, and critique. With the latter, I make a start in this talk by investigating the question, ‘how can we discern “truth-speakers” from those who only claim to speak the truth?’ Or, ‘how can we discern parrhesiastes from populists?’ To answer this question, I critically analyze Foucault’s lectures on the classical-Greek concept for speaking the truth frankly, ‘parrhesia’ as political notion in Euripides’ plays"