Philosophy of the Possible
Modalities in Thought and Culture
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Word Count
91,250 words, Guess
Page Count
365 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL38041516M
- ISBN-139789004398337
- OCLC Control Number1085788402
- Library of Congress Control Number2019013208
Classifications
- LCCBC199.P7E6713 2019
Description
"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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