Truth / Post-Truth: Library Items

Truth and Philosophy

Finlayson, J.G. (2005) Habermas : a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lyotard, J.-F. and Jameson, F. (1984) The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge. . Translated by G. Bennington and B. Massumi. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Badiou, A. and Winter, C. (2006) Polemics. . Translated by S. Corcoran. London: Verso.

Roberts, J. (2011) The necessity of errors. London: Verso.

Barthes, R. and Thody, P. (1987) Criticism and truth. . Translated by K.P. Keuneman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Subject Headings for Truth / Post Truth

These Library of congress subject headings will help you expand your searches on the library catalogue!

Belief and doubt

Truth

Truth (Aesthetics)

Meaning (Philosophy)

Error

Disinformation

Truth and Aesthetics

• Vattimo, G. and Zabala, S. (2008) Art’s claim to truth. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Derrida, J. (1987) The truth in painting. . Translated by G. Bennington and I. McLeod. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Foster, H. (2020) What comes after farce? : Art and criticism at a time of debacle. London: Verso.
• Kelly, M. (1998) Encyclopedia of aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press. - Essay suggestion from Dr. Halsall: Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen, ‘Truth’ in Michael Kelly (ed) Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, (Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Habermas, J. (2004) After Habermas : new perspectives on the public sphere. Edited by N. Crossley and J.M. Roberts. Oxford, UK, Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. : Sociological Review.

Truth in Art Practices

• Enwezor, O. et al. (2018) Blind faith : between the visceral and the cognitive in contemporary art. Edited by A. Schneider. Munich: Prestel : Haus der Kunst.
• Fuller, M. and Weizman, E. (2021) Investigative aesthetics : conflicts and commons in the politics of truth. London: Verso.
• Hegenbart, S. and Kölmel, M.-J. (eds.) (2023) Dada data : contemporary art practice in the era of post-truth politics. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
• Onomatopee (Gallery) (2019) Diagrams of power : visualizing, mapping, and performing resistance. Edited by P. Dávila. [Eindhoven]: Onomatopee.
• Truth is concrete : a handbook for artistic strategies in real politics (2014). Berlin, Graz: Sternberg ; Steirischer Herbst.
• Curcio, J. (ed.) (2020) Masks : Bowie and artists of artifice. Bristol, UK: Intellect.

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