English Grammar: Preach My Gospel Pdf

Friday, 19 October 2012

For a philosophy that is empirical and not simply empiricist,

investigation offers the only way to ferret out its concepts and then put

them to the test before proposing a version that can be submitted to

critique by its peers. And yet, even though investigation as a genre

benefits from a distinguished and intimidating prestige in philosophy, it is

fairly unusual for an author to propose to carry out an investigation with

the participation of his readers. This is nevertheless what I propose to do

in publishing a book titled An Investigation into Modes of Existence: An

Anthropology of the Moderns,

alongside a digital site that allows its visitors,

who will have become co-investigators, to inspect its arguments and go

on to suggest other fields to study, other proofs, other accounts. By means

of this arrangement I invite my co-investigators to help me find the

guiding thread of the experience by becoming attentive to several regimes

of truth, which I call modes of existence, after the strange book by Étienne

Souriau, recently republished, that features this phrase in its title.

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