Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces

by Maurizio Ferraris

Book Overview

This 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
predecessors--most notably Derrida, in his project of a positive grammatology--left in an impressionistic state.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823249689
• ISBN13: 9780823249688
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"