| Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity Contributor(s): Cicovacki, Predrag (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742513769 ISBN-13: 9780742513761 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: Truth, Cicovacki 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 121.092 |
| LCCN: 2002001789 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.04" W x 8.94" (0.71 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |