Table of 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
2.5 The common syntax of illness and speech 44
2.6 The glance and the knife: Dissection and organization 46
2.7 Clinical organization: The role of medical technology 48
2.8 The stethoscope 49
2.9 The spatialization of medical technology 50
2.10 The ophthalmoscope and ophthalmometer 53
2.11 The laryngoscope 56
2.12 The X-ray 57
3 Subjective Empiricism and Organization 59
3.1 How mind is organized into a subject by the natural principles of association 62
3.2 Sensation and Organization 66
3.3 The general rules: Artifice and organization 68
3.4 Hume's critique of egoism: Partial sympathy, the natural unit of society 71
3.5 The rule of property 73
3.6 The institution as the social embodiment of practical reason 75
3.7 Hume's theory of power and organizational implications 76
3.8 Some further implications of Hume's empiricism: Relations and difference as the bases of organization 79
3.9 Conclusions: Hume and organization 81
4 Organization and Becoming 83
4.1 Hegel's logic of determination 83
4.2 Bergson's critique of the dialectic: Contingency and abstraction 86
4.3 Difference as the internal movement of being: Causa Sui 89
4.4 Organization is unforeseeable 91
4.5 Bergson's critique of the One and the Multiple 95
4.6 Against state philosophy: Order v. organization 97
4.7 Organization as the actualization of the virtual 98
4.8 Bergson's critique of possibility and realization as the locus of order: Virtuality and actualization as the locus of organization 100
4.9 The limits of Bergsonism: Differentiation is only the first part of organization 101
4.10 Difference and univocity: Towards an organizational logic 103
5 Organization and Affirmation 107
5.1 Nietzsche and critique 107
5.2 Total critique as re-evaluation: Pars Destruens, Pars Construens 108
5.3 Nietzsche's perspectivism 110
5.4 The form of the question in Nietzsche 113
5.5 Nielzsche's slave logic and master logic: Who wills organization? 115
5.6 Nietzsche's critique of humanism 121
5.7 Organization: Consciousness and the body 123
5.8 The path to self-consciousness in Hegel: Labour, desire and consumption 125
5 9 Nietzsche on labour, desire and consumption 127
5.10 Labour as human essence 128
5.11 Nietzsche's dicethrow: Will to power and eternal return 130
5.12 Organization: Will to power and eternal return 132
5.13 Organization: Burden or relief 134
5.14 Nietzsche and organization: Affirmation of affirmation 135
6 Organization as Joyful Practice 138
6.1 Spinoza's materialism: Substance, attributes and modes 138
6.2 Spinoza's expressivism and organization 141
6.3 Spinoza's analysis of power: Organization, a power to affect and to be affected 143
6.4 Spinoza's corporeal philosophy 147
6.5 Implications of Spinoza's corporeal philosophy for organization theory 149
6.6 The passive and the active body/organization 150
6.7 The embodied power of organization: The conatus 153
6.8 Desire is the desire for organization 154
6.9 Spinoza's adequate ideas: Understanding and organization 156
6.10 Towards a Spinozian ethics of organization 159
6.11 Spinoza's theory of Right 161
6.12 Spinoza's theory of Reason 163
6.13 The Common notions: Steps towards an organizational ecology 164
6.14 Forming common notions: A basic organizational principle 166
6.15 The common notions: An ethical practice of organization 168
6.16 Towards a new conception of organizational effectiveness 171
Conclusion 174
Glossary 177
Bibliography 178
Index 185
