Organization Philosophy Gehlen, Foucault, Deleuze

by Scott, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780230247222
• ISBN10: 0230247229
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organization 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 problems faced and their solutions.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Guide to the text	p. 3
The Organized Body	p. 9
The organic sense of organization	p. 10
Organ-Machines	p. 13
Anthropology and organization: Gehlen's Man	p. 15
Man's burden and relief	p. 16
Burden and relief in the organization of mind	p. 18
Man's affective response to world-openness: Motivation, work and organization	p. 19
Embodiment and organization in sociology	p. 23
Internal and external disciplines of embodiment	p. 25
Examples of embodiment: (I) Sitting and walking	p. 27
Examples of embodiment: (II) The hand	p. 29
The mutual organization of hand and mind	p. 32
Technologies of Embodiment	p. 34
A medicine of species	p. 35
The primary spatialization of pathology	p. 36
The secondary spatialization of pathology	p. 39
The tertiary spatialization of pathology	p. 42
The common syntax of illness and speech	p. 44
The glance and the knife: Dissection and organization	p. 46
Clinical organization: The role of medical technology	p. 48
The stethoscope	p. 49
The spatialization of medical technology	p. 50
The ophthalmoscope and ophthalmometer	p. 53
The laryngoscope	p. 56
The X-ray	p. 57
Subjective Empiricism and Organization	p. 59
How mind is organized into a subject by the natural principles of association	p. 62
Sensation and Organization	p. 66
The general rules: Artifice and organization	p. 68
Hume's critique of egoism: Partial sympathy, the natural unit of society	p. 71
The rule of property	p. 73
The institution as the social embodiment of practical reason	p. 75
Hume's theory of power and organizational implications	p. 76
Some further implications of Hume's empiricism: Relations and difference as the bases of organization	p. 79
Conclusions: Hume and organization	p. 81
Organization and Becoming	p. 83
Hegel's logic of determination	p. 83
Bergson's critique of the dialectic: Contingency and abstraction	p. 86
Difference as the internal movement of being: Causa Sui	p. 89
Organization is unforeseeable	p. 91
Bergson's critique of the One and the Multiple	p. 95
Against state philosophy: Order v. organization	p. 97
Organization as the actualization of the virtual	p. 98
Bergson's critique of possibility and realization as the locus of order: Virtuality and actualization as the locus of organization	p. 100
The limits of Bergsonism: Differentiation is only the first part of organization	p. 101
Difference and univocity: Towards an organizational logic	p. 103
Organization and Affirmation	p. 107
Nietzsche and critique	p. 107
Total critique as re-evaluation: Pars Destruens, Pars Construens	p. 108
Nietzsche's perspectivism	p. 110
The form of the question in Nietzsche	p. 113
Nielzsche's slave logic and master logic: Who wills organization?	p. 115
Nietzsche's critique of humanism	p. 121
Organization: Consciousness and the body	p. 123
The path to self-consciousness in Hegel: Labour, desire and consumption	p. 125
Nietzsche on labour, desire and consumption	p. 127
Labour as human essence	p. 128
Nietzsche's dicethrow: Will to power and eternal return	p. 130
Organization: Will to power and eternal return	p. 132
Organization: Burden or relief	p. 134
Nietzsche and organization: Affirmation of affirmation	p. 135
Organization as Joyful Practice	p. 138
Spinoza's materialism: Substance, attributes and modes	p. 138
Spinoza's expressivism and organization	p. 141
Spinoza's analysis of power: Organization, a power to affect and to be affected	p. 143
Spinoza's corporeal philosophy	p. 147
Implications of Spinoza's corporeal philosophy for organization theory	p. 149
The passive and the active body/organization	p. 150
The embodied power of organization: The conatus	p. 153
Desire is the desire for organization	p. 154
Spinoza's adequate ideas: Understanding and organization	p. 156
Towards a Spinozian ethics of organization	p. 159
Spinoza's theory of Right	p. 161
Spinoza's theory of Reason	p. 163
The Common notions: Steps towards an organizational ecology	p. 164
Forming common notions: A basic organizational principle	p. 166
The common notions: An ethical practice of organization	p. 168
Towards a new conception of organizational effectiveness	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 174
Glossary	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 178
Index	p. 185
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