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A Philosophy of the Possible
Mikhail Epstein
其他書名
Modalities in Thought and Culture
出版Brill Rodopi, 2019
主題Philosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / Epistemology
ISBN90043983339789004398337
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tSTWwQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.