{"product_id":"documentality-why-it-is-necessary-to-leave-traces-by-maurizio-ferraris-richard-davies","title":"Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris, Richard Davies","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780823249695\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFordham University Press, 18 \u003cspan\u003eDecember 2012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 392 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IH PENTZ BOOKSELLERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46679463526562,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/71xtRSs8PEL._SY522.jpg?v=1773736458","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/documentality-why-it-is-necessary-to-leave-traces-by-maurizio-ferraris-richard-davies","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}