The dialectic of practice and the logical structure of the tool : philosophy, archaeology and the anthropology of technology / Jannis Kozatsas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozatsas, Jannis, author.

Series:

Praehistorica mediterranea ; volume 7.

Praehistorica Mediterranea ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Tools--History--Philosophy.

Tools.

History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 pages).

Place of Publication:

Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object -the socio-cultural and the natural- are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 6, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781789694055

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.