An approach to post-truth following Hannah Arendt’s line of thought: Tribalism, the reckoning between reality and falsehood, and the breakdown of the common world

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the post-thruth phenomenon from the political thougth of Hannah Arendt. To do so, it has been divided into two parts. The first part addresses the old link between politics and truth which is analyzed as something inherent to politics, establishing the limit of that tension in the total rupture between oficial discourse and reality itself. The second part deals with the conceptualization of the idea of post-truth base on three axes of analysis identified in Arendt´s work, such as tribal loyalty, the reckoning between reality and falsehood, and the breakdown of the common world.