A Philosophy of the Possible - Modalities in Thought and Culture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Value Inquiry Book Series / Contemporary Russian Philosophy, 333
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Mikhail Epstein
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	366
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-39833-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	90-04-39833-3
Barcode:	9789004398337

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