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A philosophy of the possible : modalities in thought and culture /

"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 re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epstein, Mikhail (Autor)
Otros Autores: McGee, Vern (Traductor), Ėskina, Marina (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
Colección:Value inquiry book series ; volume 333.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.