TY - JOUR A1 - Ziegler, Robert Hugo T1 - Die Rückkehr des Realen T2 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie N2 - We are witnessing a return of the real which philosophy seems illequipped to handle. I argue (1) that this return of the real must be read as a rejection of those philosophical tendencies which were prevalent in the past decades and which I call philosophies of mediation: They supplanted all references to something real by the sole reference to those processes in which reality was supposed to be given or shaped (in interpretations, linguistic structures, historical or social conditions, media…). The current urgency of the question of the real indicates that those philosophies have lost credibility. On the other hand (2), the contemporary attempts to resuscitate philosophical realism cannot be considered satisfactory either. It is curiously the real itself they fail to fully appreciate. All in all (3), the return of the real has to be interpreted as the effect of an event that has little to do with philosophy, namely the return of politics. KW - realism KW - nature KW - politics KW - media KW - postmodernism Y1 - 2020 UR - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/21777 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-217771 SN - 2192-1482 SN - 0012-1045 N1 - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. VL - 68 IS - 4 SP - 611 EP - 626 ER -