New Philosophy of Society - Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

Informationen zum Autor Manuel DeLanda began his career in experimental film! later became a computer artist and programmer and is now Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture! Planning and Preservation! Columbia University! USA. He is the author of the bestselling books War in the Age of Intelligent Machines and A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and of Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy! also published by Continuum. Klappentext A new and highly original interrogation of social philosophy from one of the world's leading theorists > Zusammenfassung Offers a look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. This book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time to territorial states and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Assemblages Against Totalities 2. Assemblages Against Essences 3. Persons and Networks 4. Organisations and Governments 5. Cities and Nations

Product details

• Authors: Manuel Delanda, Professor Manuel (University of Pennsylvania DeLanda
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2006
• EAN: 9780826491695
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9169-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Geschichte, Sozialtheorie, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy