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      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. 
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Michaela Ott EAN: 9783030101466 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-01-04 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Social WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Social and political philosophy

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      Michaela Ott is Professor of Aesthetic Theories at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Academy of Fine Art) Hamburg, Germany. Her main publications include Deleuze: Zur Einführung (2005), Affizierung (2010), Timing of Affect: Epistemologies of Affection (2014), edited with Marie-Luise Angerer and Bernd Bösel and Dividuationen: Theorien der Teilhabe (2015).  
      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. 
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Michaela Ott EAN: 9783030101466 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-01-04 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Social WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Social and political philosophy

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      Michaela Ott is Professor of Aesthetic Theories at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Academy of Fine Art) Hamburg, Germany. Her main publications include Deleuze: Zur Einführung (2005), Affizierung (2010), Timing of Affect: Epistemologies of Affection (2014), edited with Marie-Luise Angerer and Bernd Bösel and Dividuationen: Theorien der Teilhabe (2015).  

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