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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Mikhail (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: McGee, Vern (Translator), Ä–skina, Marina (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English, translated from Russian.
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
Series:Value inquiry book series ; volume 333.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: fundamental concepts of the theory of the possible
  • 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
  • Beyond being and nothingness: the feeling of the possible
  • A world view, 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
  • Differance and the Tao
  • 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
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Ethics
  • Psychology
  • Religion.