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This book intends to broaden the study of idealism beyond its
simplistic characterizations in contemporary philosophy. After
idealist stances have practically disappeared from the mental
landscape in the last hundred years, and the term "idealism" has
itself become a sort of philosophical anathema, continental
philosophy was, first, plunged into one of its deepest crises of
truth, culminating in postmodernism, and then, the 21st century
ushered in a new era of realism. Against this background, the
volume gathers a number of renowned philosophers, among them Slavoj
Zizek, Robert B. Pippin, Mladen Dolar, Sebastian Roedl, Paul
Redding, Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, James I. Porter, and others, in
order to address the issue as to what exactly has been lost with
the retreat of idealism, and what kind of idealism could still be
rehabilitated in the present day. The contributions will both
provide historical studies on idealism, pointing out the little
known, overlooked, and surprising instances of idealist impulses,
and set out to develop new perspectives and possibilities for a
contemporary idealism. The appeal of the book lies in the fact that
it defends a philosophical concept that has been increasingly under
attack and thus contributes to an ongoing debate in ontology.
This open access book advances the current debate in continental
realism. In the field of contemporary continental ontology,
Speculative Realist thinkers are now grappling with the genealogy
of their ideas in the history of modern philosophy. The Speculative
Realism movement prompted a debate, criticizing the predominant
postmodernist orientation in philosophy, which located its origins
in Kantian "correlationism" which supposedly ended the period of
early modern naive realist metaphysics by showing that the mind and
the outside world can only ever be understood as correlates. The
debate over a new kind of realism has attracted many supporters and
critics. In order to refocus its specific interpretation of modern
philosophy in general and of the Kantian gesture in particular,
this volume brings together major authors working on contemporary
ontology and historians of ideas. It underlines and illustrates the
fact that contemporary continental philosophy is rediscovering its
past in original ways by productively re-interpreting some of the
key concepts of modern philosophy. The perspectives and accounts of
the key concepts of the history of philosophy are different in the
views of individual contributors, and sometimes radically so, yet
the discussion between contemporary realists and their critics
shows that the real battleground of new ideas lies not in
developing the philosophical motifs of the end of the 20th century,
but rather in rethinking the milestones of modern philosophy. The
eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
This open access book advances the current debate in continental
realism. In the field of contemporary continental ontology,
Speculative Realist thinkers are now grappling with the genealogy
of their ideas in the history of modern philosophy. The Speculative
Realism movement prompted a debate, criticizing the predominant
postmodernist orientation in philosophy, which located its origins
in Kantian "correlationism" which supposedly ended the period of
early modern naive realist metaphysics by showing that the mind and
the outside world can only ever be understood as correlates. The
debate over a new kind of realism has attracted many supporters and
critics. In order to refocus its specific interpretation of modern
philosophy in general and of the Kantian gesture in particular,
this volume brings together major authors working on contemporary
ontology and historians of ideas. It underlines and illustrates the
fact that contemporary continental philosophy is rediscovering its
past in original ways by productively re-interpreting some of the
key concepts of modern philosophy. The perspectives and accounts of
the key concepts of the history of philosophy are different in the
views of individual contributors, and sometimes radically so, yet
the discussion between contemporary realists and their critics
shows that the real battleground of new ideas lies not in
developing the philosophical motifs of the end of the 20th century,
but rather in rethinking the milestones of modern philosophy. The
eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
The common feature of many present-day "new realisms" is a general
diagnosis according to which, with Kant, Western philosophy lost
any contact with the outside world. In The Untruth of Reality, Jure
Simoniti, in contrast, points out the necessary realist side of
modern philosophy, arguing that the possibility of realism has
always been there. The epistemological self-inauguration of the
subject goes hand in hand with his anthropological dethronement,
the god-like centrality of the "ego" is constantly counterbalanced
with his creatural marginality, the activity of the constitutive
subject is juxtaposed with the growing indifference of the world,
and the linguistic appropriation of the world simultaneously
performs operations of the de-symbolization of reality. However,
with these precarious equilibria, the conditions of possibility of
realism have become more complex and intricate. It is therefore the
goal of this book to demonstrate how the paradigms of consciousness
and language are not necessarily incompatible with realism, but
rather open new and broader possibilities for the world behind and
beyond consciousness and language to disclose itself. This book
will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in the fields
of German idealism, continental philosophy, philosophy of language,
and philosophy of science.
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