The Tenuous Nature of Truth (or On the Importance of Fragments)

• In Event: Citizenship, Truth, and Arendt

Brief Overview

Following Walter Benjamin, Arendt reserves a political role for historical fragments, she calls them monuments or guideposts and they play a myriad of different roles, such as contesting disinformation and preventing democratic backsliding.

Author

• Kimberly Maslin, Hendrix College