A Philosophy of the Possible: Modalities in Thought and Culture

by Mikhail Epstein

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004398333
• ISBN13: 9789004398337
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"