The untruth of reality : the unacknowledged realism of modern philosophy / Jure Simoniti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simoniti, Jure, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism.

Physical Description:

vii, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

As an alternative to speculative realism, this book claims that realism is not a stance that became impossible with Kant but instead represents a concomitant phenomenon of modern reason, however obscure. The realist stance can be claimed only at the precarious pinnacle of the dialectic of totalization and release, where the overarching activity of the subject switches into a mode of de-totalizing release of the world from the constraints of consciousness and language.

Contents:

1 Three Ontologies: Three Variations on the Possibility of Realism 7

Truth as Adequation 11

Truth as Totalization 15

The Functional Interpretation of Kant's Realism 20

Truth as Release: Gleichgültigkeit, Hegel's Overlooked Revolution 33

Correctness and Truth 38

The Functional Interpretation of Hegel's Realism of Release 43

Notes 54

2 Toward an Ontological Proof for the Existence of the World 61

The Ontological Argument for the Existence of the World in Kant, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein 66

A Certain Symptomatology of Truth 79

Ontological Proof for the Existence of the World as an Object of Untruth 88

The Argument of Unpretentiousness 99

The Truth Creation and the Untruth of the World 102

Notes 104

3 Sententious Realism: Or the Non-Incainability of Idea 109

Egress from Language via Retreat into Language: Kant's Synthetic Judgment and Nietzsche's Aphorism 113

Fear of the Originality of Propositions 128

Repression of the Proposition and the Monovalence of the Word 134

The Idea and the Untruth of Reality 144.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Simoniti, Jure, 1977- author. Untruth of reality

ISBN:

9781498518406

1498518400

OCLC:

953630852