Fictional conception of reality

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The fictional conception of reality is a theory that is used in current philosophy and sociology .

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The idea of ​​the fictional conception of reality describes the possibility of every person in today's society, more than in pre-modern times , to construct a self-defined place in social space using created fictions . Colloquially, this means making yourself more interesting for your fellow human beings and yourself by creating a reality that is anchored in the fictional. The philosopher Odo Marquard states that the modern age:

“Tries to make the existing world of this world so unreal that the destruction by mass has nothing to destroy and runs into emptiness: through fictionalization. [...] Reality is a product through fictions, a fictional product. " (Marquard 1983: 40)

Further approaches for the fictionality of the real can be found in Hans Vaihinger . In his theory of the as if the content is about fictions, their realization and integration also with the individual. When Vaihinger in his main work The Philosophy of As-if primarily refers to the function of the as-if or fiction for science, it becomes clear that being - i.e. reality - can only be reached via detours. The detours described by Vaihinger involve the creation of subservient fictions.

"The real art and task of thinking is to reach being in completely different ways than those which being itself strikes." (Vaihinger 1922: 11)

The as-if thus fulfills a kind of auxiliary function in self-perception and self-perception. In the investigation of fictional reality constructions we also experience identity concepts such as a. were viewed by Heiner Keupp . Heiner Keupp and his co-authors state that the understanding of the subject, which with the beginning of modernity seems to be outdated in a world subject to constant change. This decentralization tries:

"To shovel free the view for those risky and at the same time necessary for every subject process of self-localization in his world." (Keupp et al. 2006: 53)

literature

  • Keupp, Heiner; Ahbe, Thomas; Gmür, Wolfgang; Höfer, Renate; Mitzscherlich, Beate; Kraus, Wolfgang; Straus, Florian: Identity Constructions. The patchwork of identities in late modernity. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2006, ISBN 9783499556340 .
  • Marquard, Odo: Art as Antifiktion Ed. In Henrich, Dieter / Iser, Wolfgang Poetics and Hermeneutics - Functions of the Fictitious. , Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1983, ISBN 3770520556 .
  • Vaihinger, Hans: The Philosophy of As If. System of the theoretical, practical and religious fictions of mankind based on an idealistic positivism. , Felix Meiner publishing house, Leipzig 1922.

further reading

  • Reicher, Maria E .: The objects of the as-if . In: Koch, Gertrud / Voss, Christiane (ed.): It is as if. Fictionality in Philosophy, Film and Media Studies. , Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 3770545117 .
  • Marquard, Odo: Art as antifiction - attempt on the path of reality into the fictional. In: Henrich, Dieter / Iser, Wolfgang (ed.): Functions of the fictional. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1983, ISBN 3770520556 .