Overview: Gives more food for thought on illusion, reality, alterity, deception and simulation to phenomenologists.Identifying quickly illusion with deception, we tend to oppose it to the reality of life. However, investigating in this collection of essays illusion‘s functions in the Arts, which thrives upon illusion and yet maintains its existential roots and meaningfullness in the real, we might wonder about the nature of reality itself...Does not illusion open the seeming confines of factual reality into horizons of imagination which transform it? Does it not, like art, belong essentially t
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