Philosophy of Traces : The Influence of Maurizio Ferraris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andina, Tiziana.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

The first book in English to offer an extended critical engagement with the work of contemporary Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Maurizio Ferraris: The Philosopher of Traces (That Never Disappear)

Tracing Ferraris: Ontology, documentality and digital justice

Reality exists to be inscribed

The ontology of what remains: Traces and the invisible real

Truth as trace: The foundations of documental realism

The skin of thought: The ontology of embodied mind

The transformation of the social contract: From welfare to Webfare

From industrial to digital communism

Hermeneutics in the age of the trace

This volume

References

Part One Metaphysics

1 Realism and Sublimation: Ferraris on Desire

Personal sublimation: Desire is not always emancipative

Political sublimation: Imagination is not always emancipative

Non-human reality in politics

2 Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Recording, Hysteresis and Emergence

Emergence and ichnology

A brief history of emergence

Emergence, ichnology, hysteresis

Final remarks

Postscript

Notes

Part Two Memory

3 Memory and Its Traces

Remembering the past

Memory

Remembering an event

Traces of the past

Conclusion

4 Footprints and Traces: The Perspective of Cognitive Sciences

Koffka and Ferraris

Memory as mental traces

Traces as social representations

Part Three Life

5 Traces of the Living

Biologically primitive phenomena

Mindless traces and purposive systems

Finding the way

Note

6 Archiving Humanity: Towards a Novel Thinking of Doc-History in the Tracesof Maurizio Ferraris

Part Four Friendship

7 Friendship Versus Autonomy: Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing?

The question

The metaphysics of interdependence.

Interdependent friends

Does interdependence allow for autonomy?

8 Poetics of Friendship -Derrida, Adami, Ferraris

Che cos'è la poesia?

Che cos'è la philosophia?

Che cos'è la pittura?

Part Five Documents

9 The Analytic/Continental Divide

Preamble

Realism

Divides and agglomerations

On Continental and analytic philosophy

Back to Ferraris

10 Docu-mental Capital

Part Six Art

11 Music as an Art of Trace

Musical traces

Orality, writing (notation), phonography

12 Automatic Sweethearts and Other Empathetic Robots: The Dark Powers of 'Aesthetic Disinterest'

Part Seven Technology

13 Ferraris on Privacy

Ferraris's view on privacy

Thomson on privacy

Privacy and the production of value

14 Webfare: How to Solve the Welfare State Crisis through the Conceptualization of Traces

Theoretical background

Two challenges to the welfare state

Webfare as a positive answer

Advantages of the notion of trace

15 Ferraris: Instructions for Use - How the Encounter with Documentality Changed My Practice as an Architect and Professor

Misunderstandings

Teaching and research

Polytechnic politics

Professional activity

Part Eight Imagination and Interpretation

16 Imagination and Interpretation: How the Human Mind Builds Reality in the Age of AI

Introduction

Imagination as a cognitive engine: Beyond creativity

Interpreting the world: From sensation to shared meaning

Human mind versus machine mind: What AI will never have

17 Trace and Institution: Remarks onDoc-Humanity

The animal with opposable thumbs

Of traces

Notes.

References

Part Nine Future

18 From Will to Reason: A Critical Overview of Ferraris's Thought

If this is a man: A philosophical anthropology

If this is the future: Survival strategies

The value of interruption

19 Traces of the Future

Signs, traces and the epistemic asymmetry

The metaphysical interpretation of the asymmetry

How we can leave traces of the future

Phenomenology of action

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781350511538

OCLC:

1591758278