{"product_id":"documentality-why-it-is-necessary-to-leave-traces-9780823249688","title":"Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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's\u003cbr\u003epredecessors--most notably Derrida, in his project of a positive grammatology--left in an impressionistic state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFerraris 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurizio Ferraris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823249688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaurizio Ferraris (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin. He is the co-author, with Jacques Derrida, of A Taste for the Secret and the author of Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Davies (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Davies teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bergamo. His research interests are in logic and the history of philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45073520197747,"sku":"9780823249688","price":217.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c18ee948-61c6-4511-a275-d7028fb288b0.jpg?v=1780703356","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/documentality-why-it-is-necessary-to-leave-traces-9780823249688","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}