Abstract

In an age of alternative facts, fact-checking has become almost second nature to critical thinkers who are concerned with the consequences of post-truth for the future of democracy. Drawing primarily on the work of Hannah Arendt and secondarily on that of Michel Foucault, this essay questions fact-checking as a democratic world-building practice and argues for forms of truth-telling that do not fall prey to Western philosophical conceptions of absolute truth and its hostility to plurality, opinion, and contingency.

Keywords: hannah arendt, michel foucault, politics, Post-Truth, truth-telling, fact-checking

How to Cite: Zerilli, L. M. G. (2020). Fact-Checking and Truth-Telling in an Age of Alternative Facts. Le Foucaldien, 6(1), 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.68