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| Language: | Danish |
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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650433 |
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- <p>Danish Abstract:</p> <p>`Sandhedens pris` er et principielt vidnesbyrd om, hvad der sker, når et akademisk system holder op med at være korrigerbart – og når tavshed bliver et magtmiddel.</p> <p>I første del udfoldes en principiel, filosofisk analyse af institutionel tavshed, etikforladthed og magtens mekanismer, når procedurer erstatter ansvar, og kritik gøres til et personligt problem. I anden del dokumenteres det konkrete forløb, hvor netop disse mekanismer træder frem i praksis. Bogens to dele er selvstændige og kan læses hver for sig eller som prismer for hinanden.</p> <p>Bogen skildrer således en konkret sag om dokumenterede fejl i en anmeldelse og en redaktions afvisning af at rette dem. Men den konkrete sag er kun et eksempel og bogen handler om noget større: om integritet, parrhesia (modet til at tale sandt), og om den eksistentielle pris, der betales, når man insisterer på, at fakta ikke er til forhandling.</p> <p>Bogen er ikke et partsindlæg og ikke en personlig klage. Den er et arkivisk vidnesbyrd: en filosofisk meditation over og en saglig dokumentation af et brud mellem sandhed og system – og en påmindelse om, at når institutioner ikke længere kan tåle korrektion, ophører de med at være videnskabelige og bliver forvaltere af deres egen myte.</p> <p>Sandhedens pris er skrevet for dem, der vil forstå, hvordan tavshed fungerer som magt, og hvorfor integritet nogle gange kræver, at man vælger sandheden frem for sin plads i systemet.</p> <p><br>English Abstract:</p> <p>The Price of Truth is a principal testimony to what happens when an academic system ceases to be corrigible—and when silence becomes an instrument of power.</p> <p>In the first part, a principled philosophical analysis unfolds of institutional silence, ethical abdication, and the mechanisms of power that emerge when procedures replace responsibility and criticism is turned into a personal issue. In the second part, a concrete course of events is documented in which precisely these mechanisms appear in practice. The two parts of the book are independent and can be read either on their own or as prisms for one another.</p> <p>Thus, the book describes a concrete case involving documented errors in a review and an editorial refusal to correct them. But it addresses something larger: integrity, parrhesia (the courage to speak the truth), and the existential price that is paid when one insists that facts are not negotiable.</p> <p>The book is not a legal brief and not a personal complaint. It is an archival testimony: a meditation over and a documentation of a rupture between truth and system—and a reminder that when institutions can no longer tolerate correction, they cease to be scientific and become guardians of their own myth.</p> <p>The Price of Truth is written for those who want to understand how silence functions as power, and why integrity sometimes requires choosing truth over one’s place in the system.</p>