BİR BENLİK KRİZİ OLARAK POST-TRUTH: RASYONEL BATI VE DUYGUSAL ÖTEKİ ARASINDAKİ FARKIN SEYRELMESİ
POST-TRUTH AS AN ONTOLOGICAL CRISIS: DILUTION OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RATIONAL WEST AND EMOTIONAL EAST

Summary/Abstract: The discipline of International Relations has not shown much attention to Post-Truth. However, alternative perspectives could be developed by adopting the dyadic approach of International Relations –familiar with the phenomena in the proxies of Post-Truth– with a focus West-East (or Others) relationship, and the emotions as the basis of Post-Truth and the public life. Although Post-Truth is used in different meanings or contexts, this study argues that the essence of the concept is emotions as opposed to rationality as a reference point for defining reality. Post-Truth is a consequence of the observable process of an existential crisis. The basis of this is the fact that emotions become more visible in public life. The public sphere in the West has expanded with social media, and individuals continue to carry almost every aspect of their lives –including their emotions– to the public. As the preceding words of the year give clue, individuals contributed to the evolution of a structure where emotions are more visible in politics. Societies assuming emotions as not effective and maintaining this as one of their superior ontological assumptions have found themselves resembling their other, and the demarcation has begun to blur.

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