- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Philosophy
Full Description
We are said to live in a 'post-truth' era, yet our time is equally marked by an obsession with reality. From new realism in philosophy to the cult of authenticity in culture and the hyper-technological tracking of bodies and minds, countless efforts seek ever more direct access to what is supposedly 'most real'. This volume challenges the crisis-ridden formula of truth striving to grasp reality directly—forever approaching it, yet always falling short. Instead, it rethinks truth through the lens of indirectness and allows it to unfold in the here and now. Drawing on philosophical, political, and aesthetic perspectives, the essays examine how erring is inherent to genuine insight, how fictions reveal facts, how illusions can enable emancipatory struggles, and how strategies of indirectness in literature, cinema, and popular culture produce the effect of truth.
Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction
1. Truth and Indirectness, Jela Krečič and Jure Simoniti
Part 1. Theories of Indirectness
2. Why True Atheism Has to Be Indirect, Slavoj Žižek
3. Desire, Hysteria and the Indirectness of Truth, Alenka Zupančič
4. Alexandre Kojève: A Philosopher in the Age of Post-Truth, Boris Groys
5. Untruth and Directness, Agon Hamza
Part 2. Practices of Indirectness
6. The Shibboleth of Indirectness, Robert Pfaller
7. The Political Void of Contemporary Realism, or of the Coming Anarchy, Catherine Malabou
8. Comrade: A Body for Politics, Jodi Dean
Part 3. Aesthetics of Indirectness
9. Being and Punning, Mladen Dolar
10. Adorno's Exotic Girls of Language, or, The Verfremdworteffekt, Frank Ruda
11. Crever dʼesprit: On Matter Directly Incarnating Ideas in Sci-Fi Literature, Miran Božovič
12. Tarantino's Cinema: Fiction against Ideology, Jela Krečič
13. Image and Narrative. Indirectness and the Difference between American and European Cinema, Jure Simoniti
