Phenomenon of post-truth in the historical and cultural horizon and the context of dialogics

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of post-truth, characteristic of modern culture, as a reflex of mental procedures related to the orientation of a person in the modern world, and a ghettoized communicative process in which personal beliefs and group interpretations play a more significant role than facts, however carefully motivated, but going against prejudices. In this regard, it is recorded that this kind of cultural practice leads to the closure of consciousness and experience in a semantic, mental capsule. It is emphasized that the culture of post-truth does not reject the truth as such, but interprets it arbitrarily, as a personal or group idefix. The nature of post-truth is not necessarily connected with the technologies of manipulating the consciousness of the masses or with a purely emotive attitude of a person to the facts of existence, as is sometimes believed. This phenomenon has fundamental historical and cultural prerequisites. The logic of post-truth is an imperfect attempt to respond to the crisis of evidence that unfolded in the twentieth century and culminated in our time, it is associated with the archaization of consciousness that cannot cope with the burden of current problems. The phenomenon of post-truth is expressed in such a way of a person's world orientation, when a point of view is absolutized, which is marked either as personal or as uniting members of a solidary community, often a kind of closed socio-cultural ghetto. The possible direction of going beyond such isolation is seen in the dialogic practice (dialogics) described by V. S. Bibler. The article emphasizes the importance for productive selfdetermination of the individual in the modern world of education and training of the skill of internal discussion with oneself, with the initial assumption of the possibility of different «cultural logics», different positions and views.