Organization Philosophy Gehlen, Foucault, Deleuze
- New York Palgrave Macmillan 2010
- 192p
includes index and biblioraphy
Guide to the Text .........1 1. The Organized Body ......9 The organic Sense of Organization .....10 Organ-Machines ....13 Anthropology and Organization :Gehlen`s Man .....15 Man`s Burden and Relif .......16 Burden and relief in the organization of Mind .....18 Man`s Affective response to world-Openness: Motivation, work and organization .....19 Embodiment and organization in Sociology ..........23 Internal and external discipliness of Embodiment ........25 Examples of Embodiment ........27 The mutual Organization of Hand and Mind ..........32 2. Technologies of Embodiment .........34 A medicine of Species .......35 The primary spatialization of Pathology .......36 The secondary Spatialization of Pathology .......39 The Tertiary Spatialization of Pathology ..........42 The Common syntax of Illness and Speech .......44 The glance and the knife: Dissection and Organization .........46 Clinical Organization : the Role of Medical Technology .........48 The Stethoscope .......49 The spatialization of Medical Technology .........50 The ophthalmoscope and Ophthalmometer ....53 The Laryngoscope ......56 The X-ray ......57 3. Subjective empiricism and organization ....59 How mind is Organized into a Subject by the Natural principles of Association ........62 Sensation and Organization .......66 The General Rules : Artifice and Organization ......68 Hume`s Critique of Egoism : partial Sympathy, the Natural Unit of Society .......71 The Institution as the Social Embodiment of Practical reason ........75 Hume`s Theory of Power and Organizational Implications ...........76 Some Further implications of Hume`s Empiricism : Relations and difference as the Bases of Organization ..........79 4. Organization and Becoming .......83 Hegel`s Logic of Determination ........83 Bergson`s Critique of the Dialectic: Contingency and Abstraction ...86 Difference as the Internal Movement of Being : Causa Sui ......89 Organization is Unforeseeable .....91 Bergon`s Critique of the One and the Multiple ......95 Against state philosophy : Order V. Organization .....97 Bergon`s Critique of Possibility and realization as the Locus of Order : Virtuality and actualization as the Locus of Organization .......100 The limits of Bergsonism : Differentiation is only the First part of Organization ......101 Difference and Univocity : Towards an Organizational logic ....103 Organization and Affirmation .......107 Nietzsche and Critique .......107 Total Critique as re-evaluation : Pars Destruens, pars Construens ....108 Nietzsche`s Perspectivism ........110 The form of the question in Nietzsche ......113 Nietzsche`s Critique of Humanism .............121 Organization : Consciousness and the Body ........123 The path to Self-Consciousness in Hegel ........125 Nietzsche on Labour, Desire and Consumption ..........127 Labour as Human Essence ........128 Nietzsche`s Dicethrow : Will to power and eternal Return ........132 Organization as Joyful Practice ......138 Spinoza`s Materialism : Substance, attributes and Modes ......138 Spinoza`s Expressivism and Organization ......141 Spinoza`s Analysis of Power : Organization, a Power to Affect and to be Affected ........143 Spinoza`s Corporeal Philosophy .....147 Implications of Spinoza`s Corporeal Philosophy for organization theory .........149 The passive and the Active body / Organization ...150 The Embodied power of Organization ..........153 Spinoza`s Adequate Ideas : Understanding and Organization .........156 Towards a Spinozian Ethics of Organization .....159 Spinoza`s Theory of Right ........161 Spinoza`s Theory of Reason ........163 The Common Notions: Steps towards an Organizational Ecology ...........164 Forming Common Notions : A Basic Organizational Principle ........166 The Common Notion : An Ethical Practice of Organization ..........168 Towards a New Conception of Organizational Effectiveness ......171