Truth and the Will to Illusion

ISBN-13: 9783631673355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 150 str.

Stanislaw Filipowicz

Opis

The author approaches the idea of deliberative democracy with reservation, attempting to expose the vain hopes rooted in the Enlightenment tradition, and encourages reflection on the appeal of deception in a world which has become the media's 'grazing ground' and which rejects metaphysics in favour of pragmatic theories.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Stanislaw 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.