Komunikowanie polityczne w epoce postmodernizmu i postprawdy. Analiza debaty przed wyborami parlamentarnymi w Polsce w 2015 r.

The author of the text attempts to explain the meaning of the postmodern era and the post-truth era for the processes of political communication. Important factors that make up the background of the undertaken research are: the anticartesian attitude, the negation of classical metaphysics, and consequently the lack of reference to good, truth and beauty as classical transcendentals enabling the understanding of the world; message based on emotions; marginalization of values and facts; post-Fordism attitude; dominance of the consumption paradigm. The author attempts to verify how the determinants of the postmodern era and the post-truth era are present in the public discourse of political leaders, and therefore tries to answer the question whether and to what extent the symptoms of the modern era find their place in the processes of political communication. The undertaken research is based on the pre-election political debate that took place in the Polish Television studio, 20/10/2015 before the parliamentary elections in Poland.