We are said to live in a ‘post-truth’ era, yet our time is equally marked by an obsession with reality. From new realism in philosophy to the cult of authenticity in culture and the hyper-technological tracking of bodies and minds, countless efforts seek ever more direct access to what is supposedly ‘most real’. This volume challenges the crisis-ridden formula of truth striving to grasp reality directly-forever approaching it, yet always falling short. Instead, it rethinks truth through the lens of indirectness and allows it to unfold in the here and now. Drawing on philosophical, political, and aesthetic perspectives, the essays examine how erring is inherent to genuine insight, how fictions reveal facts, how illusions can enable emancipatory struggles, and how strategies of indirectness in literature, cinema, and popular culture produce the effect of truth.

Author Biography

Jela Krečič is a researcher at the University of Ljubljana. Her field of research is philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and popular culture, especially film and TV series. She is the author of Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2025). She co-edited Lubitsch Can’t Wait (2014) and The Final Countdown: Europe, Refugees and the Left (2017). Jure Simoniti is a researcher at the University of Ljubljana. He has published books and articles in the fields of linguistics, philosophy of language, psychoanalysis, the theory of truth-values, theory of truth and lying, philosophy of science, as well as realism and idealism. His publications include The Contingent Universality. A New Ontology (Bloomsbury, 2025), Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy (co-edited with G. Kroupa, De- Gruyter, 2023), New Realism and Contemporary Philosophy (co-edited with G. Kroupa, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and The Untruth of Reality: The Unacknowledged Realism of Modern Philosophy (Lexington Books, 2016).

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