Organization philosophy [electronic resource] : Gehlen, Foucault, Deleuze / Tim Scott
出版項
Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
說明
xv, 192 p. : ill
附註
Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Sep. 27, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions
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 obliquemeans 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 ofthe human being as an impossible animal, ill-equipped to survive in anyecological niche, and traces the development of culture, it describeshow communities have been builtupon 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 problemof 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 whatit can do. For readers interested in the problems ofhuman bodies and social organisations, including organisational scholars, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists and human geographers
Includes bibliographical references and index
The organized body -- Technologies of embodiment -- Subjective empiricism and organization --Organization and becoming -- Organization andaffirmation -- Organization as joyful practice
