{"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003eWritten in an easy, often witty style, \u003cem\u003eDocumentality \u003c\/em\u003erevises 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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53517715013999,"sku":"9780823249695","price":332.22,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0823249697.jpg?v=1790095309","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/documentality","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}