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On Doubt by Univocal Publishing, Vilém Flusser, Rodrigo Maltez-Noveas, Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, Siegfried Zielinski is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is On Doubt about?

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. Therefore, should we not doubt doubt? Should we not try to go beyond this last step of Cartesian doubt and look for a new faith? The twentieth century has seen many attempts to defeat Cartesian doubt, but this doubt of doubt has instead generated a complete loss of faith, which the West experiences as existential nihilism. Hence, the emerge

Who reads On Doubt?

Author

Univocal Publishing, Vilém Flusser, Rodrigo Maltez-Noveas, Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, Siegfried Zielinski

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781517912932

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Social Sciences

Rating

4.22 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14