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DOCUMENTALITY
WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO LEAVE TRACES |
By: |
Maurizio Ferraris, Richard Davies (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£116.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0823249689 |
ISBN 13: |
9780823249688 |
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
13 November, 2012 |
Series: |
Commonalities |
Pages: |
392 |
Description: |
Written in an easy, often witty, style Documentality revises Foucault's late concept of the "ontology of actuality" into the project of an "ontological laboratory," thereby reinventing philosophy as a pragmatic activity that is directly applicable to our everyday life. |
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This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription-the leaving of a trace to be called up later-is what is most fundamental to them. In doing so, it systematically organizes concepts and theories that Ferraris'spredecessors-most notably Derrida, in his project of a positive grammatology-left in an impressionistic state.Ferraris begins by redefining ontology as a way of cataloguing the world. Before any epistemology can discuss the validity of scientific or nonscientific judgments, one faces a collection of objects, be they natural, ideal, or social. Among these, Ferraris focuses on social objects, elaborating a theory of experience in the social world that leads him to define social objects as "inscribed acts." He then uses this notion to interpret social phenomena, also in light of a systematic discussion of the concept of performatives, from Austin to Derrida and Searle.Moving into considerations of the present technological revolution, Ferraris develops a "symptomatology of the document" that leads to a consideration of legal systems, finding in them original applications for his theory that an object equals a written act.Written in an easy, often witty style, Documentality revises Foucault's late concept of the "ontology of actuality" into the project of an "ontological laboratory," thereby reinventing philosophy as a pragmatic activity that is directly applicable to our everyday life. |
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Fordham University Press |
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