Palgrave Macmillan | Dividuations: Theories Of Participation (2018 EN)

Author: Michaela Ott
Full Title: Dividuations: Theories Of Participation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (February 16, 2018)
Year: 2018
ISBN-13: 9783319720142 (978-3-319-72014-2), 9783319720135 (978-3-319-72013-5), 9783030101466 (978-3-030-10146-6)
ISBN-10: 3319720147, 3319720139, 3030101460
Pages: 254
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy: Philosophy of Man
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 96.29 €


This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality. It argues that because of our bio(techno)logical entanglements with non-human others, billions of microorganisms and our multiple (in)voluntary participations in socio(techno)logical processes, we have to conceive of ourselves no longer as individuals, but as dividuations. This dividual character which enforces simultaneous and multidirectional participations in different spheres is also apt for other living beings, for entities such as the nation state, for single cultures, production processes and works of art. The critique of individuality in the book is also elaborated in critical re-readings of classical philosophical texts from Plato up to today; the new concept of dividuation is a modified and semantically enriched version of certain concepts of the French philosophers Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze.


Overview:
✓ Focuses on the emerging and pivotal concept of dividuation, offering a considered philosophical interpretation of the subject matter
✓ Explores the new concept of dividuation as a modified and semantically enriched version of certain concepts of the French philosophers Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze
✓ Provides a fascinating interdisciplinary scope: pulls together concepts from philosophy, biology, social theory and aesthetics

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