Spazi di fiducia, spazi di potere

Il presente contributo propone alcune riflessioni teoriche sui meccanismi di funzionamento della fiducia e sul ruolo che essa svolge nelle relazioni sociali, nella costruzione dei rapporti di forza e nella gestione del potere, in relazione ai processi di percezione del fenomeno mafioso

Prefazione

Prefazione a "Le geografie della mafia nella vita e nella letteratura dell'Italia contemporanea"

Introduzione

The Need for More Rhetoric in the Public Sphere. A Challenging Thesis About Post-Truth

Since it hit the headlines and aroused the interest of scholars, the phenomenon of posttruth has received two main different interpretations: someone has observed that in the phenomenon there is nothing really new: lies and fakes are always existed and the only real difference is represented by the speed with which today, thanks to the means of communication, they spread. Others, on the other hand, have emphasized the close relationship between postmodernism and post-truth, arguing that the first one is the ideological background of the second one. Our paper aims to show that in order to frame post-truth in the right perspective, we need the theoretical framework offered by the rhetoric. In…