Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 365 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004398344
Series Statement:
Value inquiry book series volume 333
Uniform Title:
Filosofii︠a︡ vozmozhnogo
Content:
Introduction: fundamental concepts of the theory of the possible -- Criticism and activism -- Philosophy and reality -- Change of modalities in the history of philosophy -- Philosophy as possibilistic thinking -- The area of the thinkable: the value of thinking in itself -- Theory, utopia, and hypothesis -- Catharsis of thinking -- Personified thinking -- Possible and impossible: aporia of thinking -- Language, thinking, and signifiability -- Universals as potentials: conceptualism -- From the general to the concrete and universal -- Multiplication of entities -- Philosophy as parody and grotesque -- Beyond being and nothingness: the feeling of the possible -- A world view, not a point of view: "a net with no knots" -- The possible in Jean Derrida -- The metaphysics of deconstruction: the main terms -- The radical nature of difference: profit and transcendence -- Center and structure -- Reverse metaphysics: the other, the play, and the writing -- Differance and the Tao -- From deconstruction to construction -- Construction and creativity -- De- and con- -- Potentiation as method: eros of thinking -- What is "the interesting"? proposed criteria -- Small metaphysics: the unique -- Society -- Culture -- Ethics -- Psychology -- Religion.
Content:
"In this book, Mikhail Epstein offers a systematic theory of modalities (the actual, possible, and necessary), as applied to the discourse of philosophy in its post-Kantian and especially post-Derridean perspectives. He relies on his own experience of living in the USSR and the US, dominated respectively by imperative and possibilist modalities. Possibilism assumes that a thing or event acquires meaning only in the context of its multiple possibilities, inviting counterfactual and conditional modes of description. The author focuses on the creative potentials of possibilistic thinking and its heuristic value. The book demonstrates the range of modal approaches to society, culture, ethics, and language, and outlines potentiology as a new philosophical discipline interacting with ontology and epistemology"--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004398337
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ėpštejn, Michail Naumovič, 1950 - A philosophy of the possible Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2019 ISBN 9789004398337
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1163/9789004398344
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004398344
URL:
https://brill.com/content/books/10.1163/9789004398344
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