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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. Cicovacki analyzes Kant's own contribution to this discussion 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 hand, modernity's high ideal of universal scientific and moral progress turned out to be illusory and ill-conceived. However, when Kant was not embracing the ideal of modernity, he made several important observations about inherent limitations of the modernist project. This is Cicovacki's focus, and he develops an interactive conception of truth from it. Truth, he says, presupposes neither a dominance of subject or object, but their dynamic and reciprocal interactive relation. The absence of proper interactions leads to various forms of self-projections or illusions. Truth, by contract, exists in a harmonious interaction between its subjective and objective elements. Cicovacki thus locates the value of truth between traditional absolutist claims and contemporary relativism.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 How Shall We Think about Truth? Part 2 Part I: Truths Chapter 3 Commonsense Truths Chapter 4 Scientific Truths Chapter 5 Metaphysical Truths Part 6 Part II: Illusions Chapter 7 Metaphysical Illusions Chapter 8 Religious Illusions Chapter 9 Moral Illusions Part 10 Part III: Can Truths Make Us Free? Chapter 11 Man as the Measure of All Things Chapter 12 A Moment of Truth Chapter 13 Back at the Crossroads

About the Author :
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).

Review :
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. 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. The author writes clearly, demonstrating a competent grast of Kant, based on wide reading. 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.. 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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742513761
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 363 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0742513769
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity
  • Width: 148 mm


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