Where Are You? - An Ontology of the Cell Phone

Informationen zum Autor Maurizio Ferraris (Author) Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin. He is the co-author, with Jacques Derrida, of A Taste for the Secret and the author of Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham). Sarah De Sanctis (Translator) Sarah De Sanctis is a professional translator and a Ph.D. student at the London Graduate School, where she specializes in literature and new realism. Klappentext An analysis of the history and social role of mobile phones today (with an enhancement of their primary writing function) is followed by a proposal of a philosophical theory of objects, which is meant to be complementary to Searle's 'collective intentionality', that places writing at the basis of social reality. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the history and social role of mobile phones today (with an enhancement of their primary writing function) is followed by a proposal of a philosophical theory of objects, which is meant to be complementary to Searle’s ‘collective intentionality’, that places writing at the basis of social reality.

Product details

• Authors: Maurizio Ferraris
• Assisted by: Sarah De Sanctis (Translation), Sarah De Sanctis (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780823256167
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5616-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Commonalities (FUP); Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries