Abstract
The word post-truth can be referred to those circumstances in which emotions or personal opinions are stronger than objective facts in processes of making public opinion. This paper proposes a jus-philosophical discussion about the use of post-truth in politics, by analyzing its historical-conceptual genesis with the birth of post-modernism and through the technological global revolution, begun in the Eighties. The work also discusses post-truth by examining Hannah Arendt’s thesis who analyzed the category both analyzing the Pentagon Papers scandal and the Nazi-totalitarian movements.
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