Has truth become a casualty of America’s increasingly caustic and volatile political culture? Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group of contributors from across the humanities and social sciences, this collection is a definitive supplement to theoretical debates about the meaning and status of truth.

Contributions by: David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best, Charles Bingham, Christopher Gilbert, Lewis A. Friedland, Francis Halsall, Jason Hannan, Thomas Hove, Jeffrey W. Jarman, Spoma Jovanovic, Yacine Kout, Paul Lawrie, Jeanette Musselwhite, Kelly M. O’Donnell, Lisa Silvestri, Shelley Sizemore, Jenny Southard