{"product_id":"documentality-maurizio-ferraris-9780823249695","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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurizio Ferraris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823249697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823249695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Maurizio Ferraris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926556705023,"sku":"9780823249695","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3015948b-2a00-46b0-ab12-6e64504ebcbb.jpg?v=1681083728","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/documentality-maurizio-ferraris-9780823249695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}