The death of truth. Kakutani M.

Pulitzer's laureate, an influential literary critic and many years of literary observer The New York Times Mitiko Kakutani - about the global eclipse of reason in the postmodern era. True, it became an endangered look: the agenda of the power elites and the media around the world today is more far from reality. Under the onslaught of “alternative truths” and frank fakes, we ourselves have lost the skills of critical thinking, allowing authoritarian governments to manipulate us. About how it happened is Kakutan's book. The author turns to the works of the largest intellectuals of the twentieth century - such as George Orwell and Hannah Arendt - to draw a frightening image of modernity, in which pseudo -consumption forms reality, and the cultural language degraded to a truly dangerous level. “The Death of Pravda” is not only relevant journalism, but a book that returns the ability to think critically in an era when the truths are lost. “Mitiko Kakutani is my main internal interlocutor: I always argue with her, I almost never agree, but I admire the honor endlessly” - Galina Yuzefovich, Meduza ”consistently, confidently and reasonably Kakutani stigmatizes modern society, the culture of postmodern and the deformation of the language, Remaining the literary critic of his faithful mission ” - Natalia Lomikina, Forbes” is an amazing book that shows the whole deceit of the modern world, stuffed with propaganda on social networks and empty political rhetoric ” - Esquire” This book could be written only by the person who reads , understands and stores more for descendants than mere mortals ” - Time