The philosopher Dominik Finkelde explores in his publication the extent to which our perception and constitution of reality, and thus our everyday and politically far-reaching actions, are not formed solely through knowledge-oriented processes, but significantly also through desire and imagination. This is by no means an academic question: it has already been sparked very simply by three glaring political and societal contradictions that are inherently unsustainable—because they are open questions: 1. How is it possible that a society like the American one, which has placed human rights so high on its agenda in its constitution, could afford torture prisons like Abu Ghraib and continues to maintain Guantánamo to this day? How can it be explained that such a fundamental...