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In 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.
Contents
PrefaceIntroduction: Fundamental Concepts of the Theory of the Possible1 The Problem of Modalities in Contemporary Thought2 A Preliminary Definition of the Modality of the Possible3 The Ontological Status of Possible Worlds. Nominalism and Realism4 The Principle of "Fullness" and the Problem of Realization of Possibilities5 Duality and "Demonism" of the Possible6 A Possibilistic Approach to the Possible7 The Plan of the BookPart 1: The Possible in Philosophy1 Criticism and Activism2 Philosophy and Reality3 Change of Modalities in the History of Philosophy4 Philosophy as Possibilistic Thinking5 The Area of the Thinkable: the Value of Thinking in Itself6 Theory, Utopia, and Hypothesis7 Catharsis of Thinking8 Personified Thinking9 Possible and Impossible: Aporia of Thinking10 Language, Thinking, and Signifiability11 Universals as Potentials: Conceptualism12 From the General to the Concrete and Universal13 Multiplication of Entities14 Philosophy as Parody and GrotesquePart 2: The Fate of Metaphysics: from Deconstruction to PossibilizationIntroduction to Part 2Section 2.1: Reverse Metaphysics: Critique and Deconstruction15 Beyond Being and Nothingness: the Feeling of the Possible16 A World View, Not a Point of View: "A Net with No Knots"17 The Possible in Jean Derrida18 The Metaphysics of Deconstruction: the Main Terms19 The Radical Nature of Difference: Profit and Transcendence20 Center and Structure21 Reverse Metaphysics: the Other, the Play, and the Writing22 Differance and the TaoSection 2.2: Construction and Possibilization23 From Deconstruction to Construction24 Construction and Creativity25 De- and Con-26 Potentiation as Method: Eros of Thinking27 What is "The Interesting"? Proposed Criteria28 Small Metaphysics: the UniquePart 3: The Worlds of the PossibleIntroduction to Part 329 Society30 Culture31 Ethics32 Psychology33 ReligionConclusionAppendixTo be Able, to be, and to Know. A System of Modalities1Definitions of ModalityA Typical DefinitionsB The Specific Definition2 ntic Modalities (Modalities of Being)A "To Be" and "To Be Able" in the Ontological and Modal PerspectivesB Existence and Non-existence C The Possible and the ContingentD The Impossible and the NecessaryE Strong and Weak ModalitiesF The General Scheme of Ontic ModalitiesG Supermodalities: The Due and the Miraculous3 pistemic Modalities (Modalities of Knowledge)4Pure (Potentialistic) ModalitiesA Active Voice (Capacity, Need)B Passive Voice (Permission, Coercion)C Second-order Modalities(1)Will and Power(2)Desire and Love5The Final Tables of Modalities6Modal Categories in Various DisciplinesA Be Able - Possess - Have Value. Modality in EconomicsB Necessity and Immortality: Modality in Eschatology7Potentiology: Prospects for the New DisciplineIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects
