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Between Truth and Illusion
Predrag Cicovacki
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Description for Between Truth and Illusion
Paperback. The central questions of this text are "what is truth?" and "why do we value truth so highly?" Predrag Cicovacki approaches them not as isolated questions but as being closely related to what Kant considered to be the ultimate philosophical concern - what is means to be a human being. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 323.
In Between Truth and Illusion, Predrag Cicovacki carefully analyzes Kant's contribution to discussions of human being and finds that he was deeply involved in the systematic development of the modern anthropocentric orientation toward liberation and dominance of the subject. On the other hands, modernity's high ideal of universal scientific and moral progress turned out to be illusory and ill-conceived. Cicovacki focuses on Kant's important observations about the limitations of the modernist project and develops an interactive conception of truth from it. Truth, the author says, presupposes a dominance of neither subject nor object, but their dynamic and reciprocal interactive relation. The absence of proper interactions leads to various forms of self-projections or illusions.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742513761
SKU
V9780742513761
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About Predrag Cicovacki
Predrag Cicovacki is director of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at the College of the Holy Cross and editor-in-chief of Diotima: A Philosophical Review. He is the author of Anamorphosis: Kant on Knowledge and Ignorance (1997) and The World We Live In: A Philosophical Crossword Puzzle (2002).
Reviews for Between Truth and Illusion
Professor Cicovacki's book supplements Kant's conception of reason and truth with an original theory that provides a critical alternative to the extremes of dogmatism and skepticism. This volume addresses a host of fundamental questions in a style of writing that is provocative and easy to follow.
Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame A lucid and detailed analysis of the problem of truth that takes its bearings by Kant but considers a wide range of other approaches, as well as offering a fresh treatment of the split in Kant's thought and how to go beyond it to a richer conception of truth.
Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California The author writes clearly, demonstrating a competent grast of Kant, based on wide reading.
CHOICE
In Between Truth and Illusion, Predrag Cicovacki undertakes the ambitious attempt of critically engaging both Kant and post-modernists in developing a novel account of truth as the harmonious interaction between subject and world. Separating the historically embedded illusions that stem from Kant's commitment to the ideals of modernity from his critical insight into their limitations, Cicovacki describes the value of human creativity that starkly contrasts with the absurdity of the postmodern world. Cicovacki's new conception of truth thus leads to a radically different understanding of Kant's philosophy in particular and the project of modernity in general. Between Truth and Illusion is a fresh and thought-provoking examination of a seriesof central philosophical themes..
Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego In Between Truth and Illusion, Predrag Cicovacki undertakes the ambitious attempt of critically engaging both Kant and post-modernists in developing a novel account of truth as the harmonious interaction between subject and world. Separating the historically embedded illusions that stem from Kant's commitment to the ideals of modernity from his critical insight into their limitations, Cicovacki describes the value of human creativity that starkly contrasts with the absurdity of the postmodern world. Cicovacki's new conception of truth thus leads to a radically different understanding of Kant's philosophy in particular and the project of modernity in general. Between Truth and Illusion is a fresh and thought-provoking examination of a series of central philosophical themes.
Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame A lucid and detailed analysis of the problem of truth that takes its bearings by Kant but considers a wide range of other approaches, as well as offering a fresh treatment of the split in Kant's thought and how to go beyond it to a richer conception of truth.
Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California The author writes clearly, demonstrating a competent grast of Kant, based on wide reading.
CHOICE
In Between Truth and Illusion, Predrag Cicovacki undertakes the ambitious attempt of critically engaging both Kant and post-modernists in developing a novel account of truth as the harmonious interaction between subject and world. Separating the historically embedded illusions that stem from Kant's commitment to the ideals of modernity from his critical insight into their limitations, Cicovacki describes the value of human creativity that starkly contrasts with the absurdity of the postmodern world. Cicovacki's new conception of truth thus leads to a radically different understanding of Kant's philosophy in particular and the project of modernity in general. Between Truth and Illusion is a fresh and thought-provoking examination of a seriesof central philosophical themes..
Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego In Between Truth and Illusion, Predrag Cicovacki undertakes the ambitious attempt of critically engaging both Kant and post-modernists in developing a novel account of truth as the harmonious interaction between subject and world. Separating the historically embedded illusions that stem from Kant's commitment to the ideals of modernity from his critical insight into their limitations, Cicovacki describes the value of human creativity that starkly contrasts with the absurdity of the postmodern world. Cicovacki's new conception of truth thus leads to a radically different understanding of Kant's philosophy in particular and the project of modernity in general. Between Truth and Illusion is a fresh and thought-provoking examination of a series of central philosophical themes.
Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego