Organization Philosophy Gehlen, Foucault, Deleuze
An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organisation inspired by Arnold Gehlen's philosophical anthropology, Michel Foucault's history of medicine and Gille Deleuze's early philosophical works. This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the pro
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Organization Philosophy Gehlen, Foucault, Deleuze Tim Scott Senior Lecturer in Organization, University of St Andrews
© Tim Scott 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-24722-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-31977-0 DOI 10.1057/9780230277557
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Contents List of Figures
xi
Preface
xii
Foreword
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
1
Guide to the text
3
1 The Organized Body
9
1.1
The organic sense of organization
10
1.2
Organ-Machines
13
1.3
Anthropology and organization: Gehlen’s Man
15
1.4
Man’s burden and relief
16
1.5
Burden and relief in the organization of mind
18
1.6
Man’s affective response to world-openness: Motivation, work and organization
19
1.7
Embodiment and organization in sociology
23
1.8
Internal and external disciplines of embodiment
25
1.9
Examples of embodiment: (I) Sitting and walking
27
1.10 Examples of embodiment: (II) The hand
29
1.11 The mutual organization of hand and mind
32
2 Technologies of Embodiment
34
2.1
A medicine of species
35
2.2
The primary spatialization of pathology
36
2.3
The secondary spatialization of pathology
39
2.4
The tertiary spatialization of pathology
42
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