ABSTRACT
The current political and social discourse seems to be all about “more transparency” in the natural relationship that transparency is supposed to have with truth. What is interesting and symptomatic to consider is the paradoxical relationship between the continuous calls for transparency – in a society that seems to be increasingly able to realize this desire thanks to new technologies and our being hyperconnected – and the emergence of a phenomenon on the contrary so muddy and opaque as that of post-truth. What is the relationship between this imperative of transparency and the phenomenon of the so called “post-truth”? In order to do this, I will first of all analyze some philosophical aspects of the concept of transparency in its relationship to truth, secondly see how they apply in contemporary political philosophy, and finally use these tools to analyze a concrete case study related to the Trump administration and to his speech about transparency and truth.
