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

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

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Author / Creator:	Epstein, Mikhail, author.
Uniform title:	Filosofii͡a vozmozhnogo. English
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
Description:	xiii, 365 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 333 Value inquiry book series. Contemporary Russian philosophy.
Subject:	Possibility. Possibility.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11914856

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Other authors / contributors:	McGee, Vern, translator. Ėskina, Marina, translator.
ISBN:	9789004398337 9004398333 9789004398344
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. In English, translated from Russian.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Epstein, Mikhail, author. Philosophy of the possible Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019] 9789004398344

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