Marci Shore: A short history of post-truth, or the uses and disadvantages of replacing God

The central question of modernity was arguably this: how could we find a firm grounding for truth in the absence of God? Post-modernity began when we gave up on replacing God, and accepted that there was no firm grounding for truth. How does this history of truth help us understand both the totalitarian experiences of the 20th century, and the neo-totalitarian experiences of the present day? Marci Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University as a associate professor. She received her MA from the University of Toronto and her PhD from Stanford University. Her doctoral thesis, “Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968,” won several awards. She is also the author of the book “The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarian