Today’s jargon of authenticity: using Adorno and Foucault to understand certain aspects of right-wing populism [Spanish]

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  • Mariana Valverde Universidad de York

Abstract

The debates among journalists, intellectuals and activist about truth, “post-truth” and the forms of political subjectivity have not properly used the abundant resources provided by the extensive struggles of European philosophy with these issues. This article attempts to show that the hardly known polemic of Theodor Adorno against the philosophical and popular forms of the existentialist discourse in post-war Germany— the sarcastic book entitled The jargon of authenticity—contains resources that might be used to go beyond the old journalistic binary “real facts” vs. “false news”.


Author Biography

Mariana Valverde, Universidad de York

Profesora del Centro de Criminología y Estudios Sociolegales de la Universidad de Toronto, Canadá.Es una de las más destacadas investigadoras en el campo de los estudios sociolegales que ha venido trabajando en diálogo con la teoría feminista y el trabajo de Foucault desde los años 1980s sobre una diversidad de campos temáticos dentro y fuera de la cuestión criminal. Entre sus libros más destacados se cuentan: Sex, power and pleasure (1985), The age of light, soap and water: moralreform in English Canada (1880s-1920s) (1991), Diseases of the will: alcohol and the dilemas of freedom (2000), Law’s dream of a common knowledge (2003), Everyday law on the street: city governance in a age of diversity (2012) and Chronotopes of law: jurisdiction, scale and governance(2015). En febrero de 2017 publicada el libro Michel Foucault en la serie Key Thinkers of Criminologyde la editorial Routledge.

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