"From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog a compact effervescent and deeply
personal exploration of art philosophy and history that unravels one of our most elusive and
contested questions: what is truth-and how to find it in our "post-truth" era? For over half a
century Werner Herzog has challenged enriched and expanded our understanding of the truth.
His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction documentary and drama reality and
imagination. Invariably Herzog goes beyond the appearance of what is true in search of a
higher truth or what he has often referred to as the "ecstatic truth". But never before has he
engaged so directly with the question of truth. In The Future of Truth a great artist essays
an answer to one of humanity's deepest most eternal questions. At a moment when deepfake AI
videos are proliferating and most people have simply thrown up their hands in despair at the
ubiquity of what we now know as fake news-not to mention the constant lying and propagandizing
from certain public figures-Herzog seeks a remedy. Mixing memoir history politics poetry
science and fierce opinion he writes with dazzling originality and panache urging readers
themselves to be unflagging and imaginative in the pursuit of truth endless though the quest
may be: I don't think truth is some kind of Pole star in the sky that we will one day get to.
It's more like an incessant striving. A movement towards it an uncertain journey a seeking
full of futile endeavor. But it is this journey into the unknown into a vast twilit forest
that gives our lives meaning and purpose it's what distinguishes us from the beasts in the
fields"-- Provided by publisher.
