ORGANZATION PHILOSOPHY: GEHLEN FOUCAULT DELUZE SCOTT T. Księgarnia

There should be an affirmative philosophy of organisation that rejects the negative tendency characterising organisation studies, and its failure to grasp the fundamental function of organisation as the oblique means to express and satisfy desires. Organisation and organisation studies should be joyful practices. This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the problem and its solution. It opens with a definition of the human being as an impossible animal, ill-equipped to survive in any ecological niche, and traces the development of culture, it describes how communities have been built upon metaphors of the body, drawing upon extended examples from the history of pathological anatomy, medical institutions and medical technology.

The central problem is to understand how our thinking, feeling and acting bodies relate to the processes and phenomena of social organisation. The argument then applies Gilles Deleuze's influential early works in the history of philosophy to the problem of organisation. Developing Michael Hardt's groundbreaking work, an extraordinary and rigorous intellectual adventure unfolds into a world of bodies and organisations. Here there are no abstractions and nothing held in reserve. Abstract conceptions of power, dialectics and consciousness are rejected: What matters is the body/organisation and what it can do.

For readers interested in the problems of human bodies and social organisations, including organisational scholars, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists and human geographers.

TIM SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Organisation at the University of St Andrews. Prior to his PhD in organisational analysis and philosophy he worked in a variety of roles in the construction, fishing and railway industries. He has conducted research in philosophy, anthropology, health, consumer studies and aesthetics. He was Harkness Scholar 2002-3, at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, USA.

Table of Contents

The Organized Body
Technologies of Embodiment
Subjective Empiricism and Organization
Organization and Becoming
Organization and Affirmation
Organization as Joyful Practice
Conclusion

208 pages, Hardcover

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