“Fugitive Truth: Renewing Democracy in the Age of Post-truth”: In response to the ‘post-truth’ condition – defined by populist disinformation and the decline of the public sphere – his contribution will develop a radical and emancipatory conception of truth by drawing on Foucault’s work on parrhesia – the ancient practice of speaking truth to power.
Saul Newman is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths University of London. His research is in the area of contemporary political and democratic theory, including topics such radical politics and anarchism, human rights, political theology, populism and post-truth politics. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Order, Crisis and Redemption: Political Theology after Schmitt (with Peter Langford) (SUNY Press 2022), The Anarchist Before the Law: Law without Authority (with Massimo La Torre) (Edinburgh University Press 2024), Post-Truth Populism: a New Political Paradigm (with Maximilian Conrad eds.) (Palgrave Springer 2024), and Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Post-Factual Age (with Maximilian Conrad eds.,) (De Gruyter – forthcoming 2026)
