Needful Structures : The Dialectics of Action, Technology, and Society in Sartre's Later Philosophy / Marcel Siegler

• Autore: Siegler Marcel <p>Marcel Siegler, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Deutschland </p>
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages)
• Disciplina: 128.4
• Soggetto topico: Sartre; Dialectics; Action; Philosophy of Technology; Social Ontology; Sociotechnical System; Technology; Society; French History of Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Political Theory; Philosophy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Needful Structures -- Research Problem -- Research Approach -- Motivation and Research Context -- Structure of this Work -- I Dialectical Foundations -- 1. From Individual Project to Historical Praxis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Being and Nothingness -- Action and Existence -- 1.3 Search for a Method -- Regressive‐Progressive Method -- 1.4 Critique of Dialectical Reason -- The Foundations of Dialectical Reason -- Human Existence as Practical Mediation of Internal and External Dialectic -- Inertia and Scarcity -- From Desire to Need -- Praxis and History -- 1.5 Concluding Remarks -- 2. Totalizing Action and Praxis‐Process -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Modes of Being and their Synthesis -- Modes of Being -- The Basic Principle of Totalization -- Object‐Totality and World -- 2.3 Action as Totalization -- Human Existence Between Facticity and Freedom -- The Lack of Being Toward Completion: Needs, Desires, and Ends -- Conceptions of Action -- Freedom -- Intention -- The Lacking State of Things -- The Practical Field of Possibilities -- Corporeal Inertia and Materiality -- The Dialectical Course of Action -- 2.4 Existence as Praxis‐Process -- Action and Situation -- Enacting Existence and World -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- 3. Existence and Technology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Dialectical Instrumentality -- Primary Instrumentalization -- The Field of Equipmentality -- The Coefficient of Utility and Adversity -- 3.3 The Social Side of Things -- Inscription -- Body Techniques -- 3.4 The Practical Inertia of Technological Objects -- The Practico‐Inert -- Exteriorized Function -- Technology and History -- Concretized Need -- 3.5 Technologically Mediated Existence -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- II The Dialectic of Practical Ensembles -- 4. Theory of Practical Ensembles: Structures in Action -- 4.1 Introduction. ; 4.2 Scarcity and Society -- The Struggle against Scarcity -- Systematic Provision of Goods and Services -- Structural Features of Practical Ensembles -- 4.3 Formation, Reinforcement, and Stabilization -- The Formation of Serial Structures -- Interest and the Demands of Things -- Exigency, Necessitation of Action, and Structural Reinforcement -- Objectification and Alienation -- Historical Constellations as Ge‑Stell -- 4.4 Transformation -- The Transformation from Serial to Communal Ensembles -- Institutionalization as (Re‑)Serialization -- Structured Interrelations as Structural Moments of Totalization -- 4.5 Persistence -- The Societal Implications of Hexis and Habit -- Sartre's Hexis as Action Disposition -- Transforming Needs into Desires and Perpetuating Practical Ensembles -- Obscuring Existential Liberation and Necessitation -- 4.6 Crisis and Disruption -- Counter‐Finality and Crisis -- Objective Contradictions -- Totalization‐of‐Envelopment -- 4.7 Concluding Remarks -- 5. Praxis of Practical Ensembles: Bodies in Motion -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Urban Mobility as Practical Ensemble -- Structural Moments of Urban Mobility -- Mediated Interrelations -- Paths of Freedom and Necessity -- 5.3 Disturbances, Disruptions, and Crises -- Disturbances and Disruptions -- Counter‐Finality and Crisis -- 5.4 Infrastructures as Needful Structures -- Urban Infrastructures -- Infrastructural Inertia and Resilience -- Criticality and Vulnerability -- 5.5 Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: How do humans, their needs, and technology interact in society? Marcel Siegler explores the dialectical relationship between human needs and desires, the demands and requirements of the built world, and the forms of organization that hold both humans and the built world together. He argues that complex societal constellations emerge from the actions individuals perform with the technological means at hand to satisfy their needs and desires in the short and long run. Based on a novel, complementary reading of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the study develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the intricate machinations of sociotechnical systems from a perspective on situated human-technology interaction.
• Altri titoli varianti: Siegler, Needful Structures The Dialectics of Action, Technology, and Society in Sartre's Later Philosophy
• Titolo autorizzato: Needful Structures
• ISBN: 9783839462829; 3839462827
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910978245503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edition panta rhei.