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

A philosophy of the possible : : modalities in thought and culture / / by Mikhail Epstein ; translated from the Russian by Vern W. McGee and Marina Eskina.

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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 respecti...

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VerfasserIn:
Epstein, Mikhail,
TeilnehmendeR:
McGee, Vern,
Ėskina, Marina,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Russian
Series:Value Inquiry Book Series 333.
Physical Description:1 online resource (379 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Fundamental Concepts of the Theory of the Possible
  • The Possible in Philosophy
  • 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
  • The Fate of Metaphysics: from Deconstruction to Possibilization
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • Reverse Metaphysics: Critique and Deconstruction
  • Beyond Being and Nothingness: the Feeling of the Possible
  • A Worldview, 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
  • Différance and the Tao
  • Construction and Possibilization
  • 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
  • The Worlds of the Possible
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Ethics
  • Psychology
  • Religion
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • To Be Able, to Be, and to Know: a System of Modalities
  • Index of Names.

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