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Truth and the Will to Illus...
It is often repeated that we live today in a 9 ost-truth: world. But this problem has a long history. Greek philosophers investigated the origins of truth (and the will to truth) in hope to separate truth from illusion. But already Machiavelli equated the concept of truth with the notion of what seems to be true. And today? Perhaps, we are paying the price of naivety. In this book, the author approaches the idea of deliberative democracy with reservation, attempting to expose the vain hopes rooted in the Enlightenment tradition, which placed the desire for truth at the fore, and relegated the desire for illusion to the shadows. The book encourages reflection on the appeal of deception in a world which has become the media's 9 razing ground: a world which rejects metaphysics in favour of pragmatic theories, thereby transforming politics into a sphere where truth is replaced with 9 arrative
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monografia Rebiun35990135 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun35990135 m o d cr ||||||||||| 181228s2018 gw o 000 0 eng d 1080471441 1080487294 1191852157 9783631709023 3631709021 9783653065824 3653065828 9783631709016 3631709013 9783631709023 10.3726/b14623 doi 9783653065824 9783631709016 PLANG eng PLANG OCLCQ OCLCL EBLCP OCLCQ Filipowicz, Stanislaw. aut Truth and the Will to Illusion Stanislaw Filipowicz 1st, New ed Frankfurt a.M. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2018 Frankfurt a.M. Frankfurt a.M. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Politics, Security and Society 22 Who needs truth? -- Illumination and the public sphere -- Illumination and the public sphere -- Nietzsche -- Ruined hopes -- Pragmatism -- In search of rules governing the new way of thinking -- The new way of thinking -- Animal laborans and the appeal of delusion -- William James -- John Dewey -- Richard Rorty It is often repeated that we live today in a 9 ost-truth: world. But this problem has a long history. Greek philosophers investigated the origins of truth (and the will to truth) in hope to separate truth from illusion. But already Machiavelli equated the concept of truth with the notion of what seems to be true. And today? Perhaps, we are paying the price of naivety. In this book, the author approaches the idea of deliberative democracy with reservation, attempting to expose the vain hopes rooted in the Enlightenment tradition, which placed the desire for truth at the fore, and relegated the desire for illusion to the shadows. The book encourages reflection on the appeal of deception in a world which has become the media's 9 razing ground: a world which rejects metaphysics in favour of pragmatic theories, thereby transforming politics into a sphere where truth is replaced with 9 arrative Stanisaw Filipowicz is professor at the University of Warsaw and ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research concentrates on the history of political ideas and political philosophy, and, more recently, on challenges posed by the erosion of classical patterns of democracy. He has authored many books and publications addressing the main currents of liberal thinking, exploring the patterns of rationality originating in the tradition of the Enlightenment and investigating their decay PHI000000. Electronic books 9783631709016 9783653065824 9783631673355