{"product_id":"documentality-why-it-is-necessary-to-leave-traces-paperback","title":"Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaurizio Ferraris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003e predecessors--most notably Derrida, in his project of a positive grammatology--left in an impressionistic state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in an easy, often witty style, \u003cem\u003eDocumentality \u003c\/em\u003erevises 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703036932403,"sku":"9780823249695","price":78.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WjZHQktheG9Pb2tFVzdUZDhKMXhLZz09.webp?v=1763315993","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/documentality-why-it-is-necessary-to-leave-traces-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}