Organization Philosophy: Gehlen, Foucault, Deleuze

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Foreword......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Guide to the text......Page 20
1 The Organized Body......Page 26
1.1 The organic sense of organization......Page 27
1.2 Organ-Machines......Page 30
1.3 Anthropology and organization: Gehlen\'s Man......Page 32
1.4 Man\'s burden and relief......Page 33
1.5 Burden and relief in the organization of mind......Page 35
1.6 Man\'s affective response to world-openness: Motivation, work and organization......Page 36
1.7 Embodiment and organization in sociology......Page 40
1.8 Internal and external disciplines of embodiment......Page 42
1.9 Examples of embodiment: (I) Sitting and walking......Page 44
1.10 Examples of embodiment: (II) The hand......Page 46
1.11 The mutual organization of hand and mind......Page 49
2 Technologies of Embodiment......Page 51
2.1 A medicine of species......Page 52
2.2 The primary spatialization of pathology......Page 53
2.3 The secondary spatialization of pathology......Page 56
2.4 The tertiary spatialization of pathology......Page 59
2.5 The common syntax of illness and speech......Page 61
2.6 The glance and the knife: Dissection and organization......Page 63
2.7 Clinical organization: The role of medical technology......Page 65
2.8 The stethoscope......Page 66
2.9 The spatialization of medical technology......Page 67
2.10 The ophthalmoscope and ophthalmometer......Page 70
2.11 The laryngoscope......Page 73
2.12 The X-ray......Page 74
3 Subjective Empiricism and Organization......Page 76
3.1 How mind is organized into a subject by the natural principles of association......Page 79
3.2 Sensation and organization......Page 83
3.3 The general rules: Artifice and organization......Page 85
3.4 Hume\'s critique of egoism: Partial sympathy, the natural unit of society......Page 88
3.5 The rule of property......Page 90
3.6 The institution as the social embodiment of practical reason......Page 92
3.7 Hume\'s theory of power and organizational implications......Page 93
3.8 Some further implications of Hume\'s empiricism: Relations and difference as the bases of organization......Page 96
3.9 Conclusions: Hume and organization......Page 98
4.1 Hegel\'s logic of determination......Page 100
4.2 Bergson\'s critique of the dialectic: Contingency and abstraction......Page 103
4.3 Difference as the internal movement of being: Causa Sui......Page 106
4.4 Organization is unforeseeable......Page 108
4.5 Bergson\'s critique of the One and the Multiple......Page 112
4.6 Against state philosophy: Order v. organization......Page 114
4.7 Organization as the actualization of the virtual......Page 115
4.8 Bergson\'s critique of possibility and realization as the locus of order: Virtuality and actualization as the locus of organization......Page 117
4.9 The limits of Bergsonism: Differentiation is only the first part of organization......Page 118
4.10 Difference and univocity: Towards an organizational logic......Page 120
5.1 Nietzsche and critique......Page 124
5.2 Total critique as re-evaluation: Pars Destruens, Pars Construens......Page 125
5.3 Nietzsche\'s perspectivism......Page 127
5.4 The form of the question in Nietzsche......Page 130
5.5 Nietzsche\'s slave logic and master logic: Who wills organization?......Page 132
5.6 Nietzsche\'s critique of humanism......Page 138
5.7 Organization: Consciousness and the body......Page 140
5.8 The path to self-consciousness in Hegel: Labour, desire and consumption......Page 142
5.9 Nietzsche on labour, desire and consumption......Page 144
5.10 Labour as human essence......Page 145
5.11 Nietzsche\'s dicethrow: Will to power and eternal return......Page 147
5.12 Organization: Will to power and eternal return......Page 149
5.13 Organization: Burden or relief?......Page 151
5.14 Nietzsche and organization: Affirmation of affirmation......Page 152
6.1 Spinoza\'s materialism: Substance, attributes and modes......Page 155
6.2 Spinoza\'s expressivism and organization......Page 158
6.3 Spinoza\'s analysis of power: Organization, a power to affect and to be affected......Page 160
6.4 Spinoza\'s corporeal philosophy......Page 164
6.5 Implications of Spinoza\'s corporeal philosophy for organization theory......Page 166
6.6 The passive and the active body/organization......Page 167
6.7 The embodied power of organization: The conatus......Page 170
6.8 Desire is the desire for organization......Page 171
6.9 Spinoza\'s adequate ideas: Understanding and organization......Page 173
6.10 Towards a Spinozian ethics of organization......Page 176
6.11 Spinoza\'s theory of Right......Page 178
6.12 Spinoza\'s theory of Reason......Page 180
6.13 The Common notions: Steps towards an organizational ecology......Page 181
6.14 Forming common notions: A basic organizational principle......Page 183
6.15 The common notions: An ethical practice of organization......Page 185
6.16 Towards a new conception of organizational effectiveness......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 191
Glossary......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 195
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