Factum, Facticity, Reality.

This collective volume Fact, Facticity, Reality. Phenomenological Perspectives" has its origins in an international conference that took place in 2019 on behalf of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung (DGPF) / (German Society for Phenomenology Research (GSPR))" at the University of Vienna. The question of the volume links a highly topical subject, the question of "reality" in the broadest sense, with a philosophical movement that has existed for more than a hundred years and is still alive today that of the phenomenology. The question of reality and our access to it is a central topic in everyday and day-to-day political debates as well as in scientific and philosophical discourses. A major challenge is the following: how can we, and can we, speak of reality when we only ever have one perspective on it, a perspective that others often do not share? Is there such a thing as reality at all, and what, if anything, might that mean? Such questions are in the background of current discussions about terms such as "fake news" or "alternative facts". The answer to that is important not only theoretically, but also ethically and politically. The volume begins with the hypothesis that the philosophical tradition of phenomenology can contribute significantly to the discussion of this question. Phenomenology has existed since Edmund Husserl, created by him around 1900, but it is still a vibrant and indeed highly diverse movement. The contemporary phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels characterizes it in the following way: Phenomenology distinguishes itself in a special way of thinking and questioning, which can be characterized as exhibiting thinking. This means that clarification of terms, argumentation and systematics, as important as they are, do not dominate the field one-sidedly. It`s about not talking about something without at the same time showing what is being talked about. This book explores phenomenological perspectives on the question of reality using the key terms "fact", "factuality" and "reality". The initial hypothesis is that phenomenologica l research can contribute significantly to the current debate about the problem of reality. This hypothesis is tested in various parts of the volume based on the subject areas "Phenomenology and Realism", "Reality - Sociality - Politics", "Facticity and Environment", "Reality and Alterity", "Facts and Emotions" and "Technical Transformations of the Relation to the World".