The common feature of many presentday ampampldquonew realismsampamprdquo is a general diagnosis according to which with Kant Western philosophy lost any with the outside world. In The Untruth of Reality Jure Simoniti in contrast points out the necessary realist side of modern philosophy arguing that the possibility of realism has always been there. The epistemological selfinauguration of the subject goes hand in hand with his anthropological dethronement the godlike centrality of the ampampldquoegoampamprdquo is constantly counterbalanced with his creatural marginality the activity of the constitutive subject is juxtaposed with the growing indifference of the world and the linguistic appropriation of the world simultaneously performs operations of the desymbolization of reality.