{"product_id":"a-philosophy-of-the-possible-modalities-in-thought-and-culture-9789004398337","title":"A Philosophy of the Possible: Modalities in Thought and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface     Introduction: Fundamental Concepts of the Theory of the Possible   1 The Problem of Modalities in Contemporary Thought   2 A Preliminary Definition of the Modality of the Possible   3 The Ontological Status of Possible Worlds. Nominalism and Realism   4 The Principle of “Fullness” and the Problem of Realization of Possibilities   5 Duality and “Demonism” of the Possible   6 A Possibilistic Approach to the Possible   7 The Plan of the Book    Part 1: The Possible in Philosophy  1 Criticism and Activism  2 Philosophy and Reality  3 Change of Modalities in the History of Philosophy  4 Philosophy as Possibilistic Thinking  5 The Area of the Thinkable: the Value of Thinking in Itself  6 Theory, Utopia, and Hypothesis  7 Catharsis of Thinking  8 Personified Thinking  9 Possible and Impossible: Aporia of Thinking  10 Language, Thinking, and Signifiability  11 Universals as Potentials: Conceptualism  12 From the General to the Concrete and Universal  13 Multiplication of Entities  14 Philosophy as Parody and Grotesque    Part 2: The Fate of Metaphysics: from Deconstruction to Possibilization   Introduction to Part 2    Section 2.1: Reverse Metaphysics: Critique and Deconstruction  15 Beyond Being and Nothingness: the Feeling of the Possible  16 A World View, Not a Point of View: “A Net with No Knots”  17 The Possible in Jean Derrida  18 The Metaphysics of Deconstruction: the Main Terms  19 The Radical Nature of Difference: Profit and Transcendence  20 Center and Structure  21 Reverse Metaphysics: the Other, the Play, and the Writing  22 Différance and the Tao    Section 2.2: Construction and Possibilization  23 From Deconstruction to Construction  24 Construction and Creativity  25 De- and Con-  26 Potentiation as Method: Eros of Thinking  27 What is “The Interesting”? Proposed Criteria  28 Small Metaphysics: the Unique    Part 3: The Worlds of the Possible   Introduction to Part 3  29 Society  30 Culture  31 Ethics  32 Psychology  33 Religion   Conclusion    Appendix   To be Able, to be, and to Know. A System of Modalities   1Definitions of Modality   A Typical Definitions   B The Specific Definition   2Оntic Modalities (Modalities of Being)   A “To Be” and “To Be Able” in the Ontological and Modal Perspectives   B Existence and Non-existence    C The Possible and the Contingent   D The Impossible and the Necessary   E Strong and Weak Modalities   F The General Scheme of Ontic Modalities   G Supermodalities: The Due and the Miraculous   3Еpistemic Modalities (Modalities of Knowledge)   4Pure (Potentialistic) Modalities   A Active Voice (Capacity, Need)   B Passive Voice (Permission, Coercion)   C Second-order Modalities   (1)Will and Power   (2)Desire and Love   5The Final Tables of Modalities   6Modal Categories in Various Disciplines   A Be Able – Possess – Have Value. Modality in Economics   B Necessity and Immortality: Modality in Eschatology   7Potentiology: Prospects for the New Discipline   Index of Names   Index of Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210773913943,"sku":"9789004398337","price":121.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-philosophy-of-the-possible-modalities-in-thought-and-culture-9789004398337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}