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On Doubt

On Doubt

Flusser, Vilém
Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez
Zielinski, Siegfried

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Series: Univocal

Philosophy

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ISBN10: 1517912938
ISBN13: 9781517912932
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pr
Published: Jul 27 2021
Pages: 100
Height: 1.00 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.63
Language: English

In On Doubt, Vilém Flusser refines Martin Heidegger's famous declaration that language is the dwelling of Being. For Flusser, the word is the dwelling of being, because in fact, in the beginning, there was the word.

On Doubt is a treatise on the human intellect, its relation to language, and the reality-forming discourses that subsequently emerge. For Flusser, the faith that the modern age places in Cartesian doubt plays a role similar to the one that faith in God played in previous eras--a faith that needs to be challenged. Descartes doubts the world through his proposition cogito ergo sum, but leaves doubt itself untouched as indubitable and imperious. His cogito ergo sum may have proved to the Western intellect that thoughts exist, but it did not prove the existence of that which thinks: one can eliminate thinking and yet continue being.

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