The Challenge of Post-Truth to Cartesian Rationalism

Year: 2020

Published in: Fundación Jean Piaget, Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata, Conexiones (2020)

This article examines how contemporary post-truth dynamics undermine the central assumptions of Cartesian rationalism: the transparency of reason, the evidential criterion of truth, and the autonomy of the knowing subject. It argues that post-truth is not mere irrationality but a structural shift in the epistemic regime toward affective, narrative, and algorithmic logics that exceed the Cartesian cogito.

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