In The Untruth of Reality, Jure Simoniti points out the necessary realist side of modern philosophy. In it, 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. 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.
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The article pursues the island experiences in the post-Kantian philosophical literature, from Fichte's and Marx's brief reference to Nietzsche's already tendentious happy isles, Heidegger's travel vision of Delos and Deleuze's poetic account of desert islands. In these philosophical phantasies, the island represents the antithesis of the conquered, already occupied, processed world, and its apparition is there to cause the collapse of the totalizing truth claim of the post-Kantian subject, who clutches the world in its entirety within the forms of property, work, power, care, or meaning. On the basis of quoted examples, a certain correlation might be discerned, according to which the object-excess can only appear and reveal itself to a higher, emergent, secondary subject, who brought his subjectivity to the point of becoming a contingent and replaceable embodiment of another subject. The subject-counterpart of the island is thus not a man but the overman, Übermensch, not truth as adequation but truth as aletheia, not the economy of the waking human being but the creativity of the dreamer, not Robinson but Friday. It is only this superhuman, eventful, creative “disembodied subject” who can bear witness to the epiphany of the pure object, and the island arising before his eyes is only the earthly representative of the magnitude of the universe and the age of the world.
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In our contribution “Condorcet – Knowledge, Society, and History” we place Condorcet’s book in the historical context of the French Enlightenment and the tradition of philosophy of history. We emphasize Condorcet’s achievements in the field of the mathematization of social sciences, particularly the importance of statistics and the calculus of probabilities for his understanding of the “social art” and the ever growing complexity of modern societies. This element, together with Condorcet’s renewal of the idea of scientific language which would primarily serve to stabilize knowledge rather than facilitate communication, is acknowledged as the heritage of Leibniz’s philosophy, particularly his project of the so called “universal characteristic”, i.e., a universal symbolism which was intended to directly represent the logical structure of the world. Unlike Latin, such language would yield emancipatory potential according to Condorcet.
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