The Future of Truth Audiobook By Werner Herzog, Michael Hofmann - translator cover art

The Future of Truth

 Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime
Try for $0.00
More purchase options
Buy for $13.50

Buy for $13.50

Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg

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.” In The Future of Truth, a great artist ventures 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 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 polestar in the sky that we will one day get to. It’s more like an incessant striving. A movement, 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 is what distinguishes us from the beasts in the fields. Biographies & Memoirs Civilization Direction & Production Entertainment & Celebrities Entertainment & Performing Arts Essays Film & TV World
All stars
Most relevant
"Read, read, read, read, read, read."
-#WernerHerzog

#TheFutureOfTruth #Cinemalism #MediaFreeAmerica #Documentary #Philosophy #Filmmaking #Cinema #Storytelling #Truth #Art #Wisdom #Books #Audiobook #FilmCulture #CreativeProcess

Does the internet dream of itself?

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Truth is a gift 🎁 you can hear like the rush of blood through your heart.

Werner's vision is clear.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Entertaining book but what was the point. Rehashed lots of ideas from his films but not many new ideas. Seems like a contractual obligation but whatever. Werner is the man. I’d pay to listen to him read the dictionary. More entertaining that 90% of the garbage in the Audible store.

Entertaining-ish

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Once again he spins a remarkable tale weaving in real events of his life.

Looking through his cracked and warped lens you see the world in the surrealist way he does.

I'm beginning to believe he is more of a great writer and thinker than he is a great filmmaker. He is something closer to DaVinci than he is Kubrick. The Future of Truth does give a glimpse into the odd childhood that may have caused his development into a savant.


Either way, the ride is wild, as always.

Werner never disappoints

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is like sitting down to have a cup of coffee with Werner Herzog. Funny, smart, honest, poetic, absurd, wry, and compassionate. I really recommend it.

Fascinating

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews