Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon Individuation, Technics, Social Systems /

This combination of historiography and theory offers the growing Anglophone readership interested in the ideas of Gilbert Simondon a thorough and unprecedented survey of the French philosopher’s entire oeuvre. The publication, which breaks new ground in its thoroughness and breadth of analysis, syst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bardin, Andrea (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 19
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Nature and Knowledge
  • Chapter 1. Elements for a Philosophy of Individuation
  • Chapter 2. Reforming the Concepts of Form and Information
  • Chapter 3. The Object of a Philosophy of Individuation
  • Chapter 4. Subject and Method of a Philosophy of Individuation
  • Part 2. Organism and Society
  • Chapter 5. From Life to Signification
  • Chapter 6. Genesis and Structure of the Collective: the Transindividual
  • Chapter 7. Social Homeostasis and the Exceeding Normativity
  • Chapter 8. Biological, Technical and Social Normativity
  • Part 3. Technicity, Sacredness and Politics
  • Chapter 9. Techno-Symbolic Function
  • Chapter 10. Magic, Technics and Culture
  • Chapter 11. The Mysticism of (Technical) Evolution
  • Chapter 12. Regulation and Invention: Simondon's Political Philosophy.