Fictional conception of reality
The fictional conception of reality is a theory that is used in current philosophy and sociology .
content
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Keupp and his co-authors state that the understanding of the subject, which with the beginning of modernity seems to be outdated in a world subject to constant change.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 .