Scott Sundvall,\u00a0Caddie Alford,\u00a0Ira J. Allen\u00a0eds.\u00a0Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth <\/a><\/em>\u2013 University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2026<\/p>\n Rhetoric has long had a contentious relationship with the idea of truth, and the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has often been skeptical of easy understandings of truth. Meanwhile, hostility to truth is doing a lot of real-world damage, even if truth itself may never have been completely reliable. The idea of post-truth poses systemic problems for rhetoric\u2019s traditional concerns. Active obfuscation, negation of truth, and even truth-indifference are certainly not new. But the past couple of decades have seen a proliferation and pervasiveness of falsities, rendering the term \u201cpost-truth\u201d an identifiable marker of the contemporary moment. Public life regularly provides examples of both post-truth in action and efforts to combat it by invoking truth. In\u00a0Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth<\/em>,\u00a0a range of English, communications, philosophy, and political science scholars draw on the resources of rhetoric to understand this moment, how truth has functioned in the past, and how it may continue to function when it is no longer accepted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/progressivegeographies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rhetoric.jpeg?w=381\")
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