{"product_id":"documentality","title":"Documentality","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\npredecessors—most notably Derrida, in his project of a positive grammatology—left in an impressionistic state.\u003cbr\u003e\nFerraris 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nMoving 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nWritten 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","brand":"Maurizio Ferraris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614246035836,"sku":"9780823249695","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780823249695_3bc1173b-0769-49ea-9e87-9ac372daa118.jpg?v=1725960191","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/documentality","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}