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Irrealism is a philosophical term which seems to have been coined in the 1980s by Nelson Goodman to refer to the belief that the debate between realism and anti-realism was based on poor assumptions. In practice many irrealists were sympathetic to the critique on realism, but were also critical of the idealist, relativist, or reductionist tendencies of the anti-realists. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Maryland – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, and aesthetics. ...
Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ...
In philosophy, the term anti-realism is used to describe any position involving either the denial of the objective reality of entities of a certain type or the insistence that we should be agnostic about their real existence. ...
In philosophy, idealism is any theory positing the primacy of spirit, mind, or language over matter. ...
Relativism is the view that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. ...
Reductionism in philosophy describes a number of related, contentious theories that hold, very roughly, that the nature of complex things can always be reduced to (explained by) simpler or more fundamental things. ...
Artist painter and philospher Tristan Tondino (1961-?) claimed to be an Irrealist and held the view that all realities are creations deriving from the needs and desires of living beings. As such Irrealism is anti-egocentric, basing truth on sustainability of worlds. Following Goodman, Tondino claimed truths about "the way the world is" make up building blocks for world versions. World versions may be thought of as functional and work by holding truths while nonetheless contradicting each other.
Tondino attempted to make his audience aware of the irreality of individual human perspectives. Some of his more well known works include ``the rule of the 2`` and ``Un tableau que personne ne veut`` or ``Realism is fascism``. Tondino claimed all art is an expression of Irrealism and that the History of Art is a representation of world versions. Irrealism therefore subsumes artistic expression and explains versions like Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Realism, Dadaism etc. as types of games - all significant ways of worldmaking or world picturing.
According to Tondino, Irrealism focuses on the deserts surrounding the tiny oases of truth about the world. Irrealist's accept Stace's arguments in his "Refutation of Realism" but claim it is just as coherent to infer there is a “world as it is”. Tondino's Irrealism holds that for the most part it is impossible to know "the given" in “sufficient” detail i.e sufficient enough to justify a theory like realism but capable of justifying one like Irrealism.
Irrealism further adopts the stance that contradiction is acceptable within the following parameters: We can’t make absolute claims about what really exists and as a result contradictory world pictures can be held coherently. For example, "physicalist monism is preferable in Physics while dualism works best in Psychology. Quarks are useless in poems – at present, love is as real as are molecules. Despite the fact that certain molecules are emotions – love itself is still relevant."
One of Tondino's more salient Letrist artworks depicting the Statue of Liberty is entitled, "A word that denotes the difference between our pictures of the world and the world". The "word" Tondino coined for this purpose is "unworld".
See also Contemporary Art The term contemporary art generally refers to art being done now. ...
Some hardcore bands in Italy have claimed to be irrealist. Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is a faster and heavier version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ...
See also
In philosophy, the term anti-realism is used to describe any position involving either the denial of the objective reality of entities of a certain type or the insistence that we should be agnostic about their real existence. ...
Philosophical realism refers to various philosophically unrelated positions, in some cases diametrically opposed ones, which are termed realism. ...
Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ...
External links - "On Star-Making" by Nelson Goodman.
References - Starmaking: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism by Peter J. McCormick (Editor). ISBN 0262133202
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