As the hyped concept of post-truth began occupying various discourses of politicians, commentators and journalists in the recent years especially in the West, this article attempts to bring a critical reflection to the concept by carrying out an integrative literature review. Our aim is to critically examine and analyse the literature and main perspectives and relationships of the issue. Therefore, different perspectives of scholars and journalists who are well-versed in their domain/tradition are combined and integrated together. On the grounds that the emerging themes create a broader dichotomy and a field of tension between two broader views- post-truth as a new era and post-truth as time-immemorial or post-truth as unfolding through the years, the article will be divided into two main sections. This will be followed by further critical elaboration and discussion on the responses being taken regarding the “truth” of the “post-truth” phenomenon principally from the perspective of democracy, power and free speech.

近年来，随着被炒作的“后真相”概念开始占据政客，评论员和新闻工作者的各种论述，本文试图通过进行综合的文献综述对该概念进行批判性反思。我们的目的是批判性地检查和分析文献，问题的主要观点和关系。因此，将在各自领域/传统方面精通的学者和新闻工作者的不同观点组合并整合在一起。鉴于新兴主题在两个更广泛的观点之间形成了更广泛的二分法和一个紧张领域-真相后是一个新时代，而真相则是随着时间的流逝而变的，或者真相则随着时间的流逝而展开。分为两个主要部分。