Individuation in light of notions of form and information / Gilbert Simondon ; translated by Taylor Adkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simondon, Gilbert, author.

Contributor:

Adkins, Taylor, translator.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 57.

Posthumanities ; 57

Standardized Title:

Individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Haecceity (Philosophy).

Individuation (Philosophy).

Individuality.

Ontogeny.

Hylomorphism.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: VOLUME I

pt. I PHYSICAL INDIVIDUATION

1. Form and Matter

Foundations of the Hylomorphic Schema: Technology of Form-Taking

The Conditions of Individuation

Validity of the Hylomorphic Schema; the Dark Zone of the Hylomorphic Schema; Generalization of the Notion of Form-Taking; Modeling, Molding, Modulation

Limits of the Hylomorphic Schema

Physical Signification of Technical Form-Taking

Physical Conditions of Technical Form-Taking

Qualities and Implicit Physical Forms

Hylomorphic Ambivalence

The Two Aspects of Individuation

Reality and Relativity of the Foundation of Individuation

The Energetic Foundation of Individuation: Individuation and Milieu

2. Form and Energy

Structures and Potential Energy

The Potential Energy and the Reality of the System; Equivalence of Potential Energies; Dissymmetry and Energetic Exchanges

Different Orders of Potential Energy; Notions of Phase Changes and of the Stable and Metastable Equilibrium of a State. Tammann's Theory

Individuation and System States

Individuation and Crystalline Allotropic Forms; Being and Relation

Individuation as the Genesis of Crystalline Forms Starting from an Amorphous State

Epistemological Consequences: Reality of Relation and the Notion of Substance

3. Form and Substance

Continuous and Discontinuous

Functional Role of Discontinuity

The Antinomy of the Continuous and the Discontinuous

The Analogical Method

Particle and Energy

Substantialism and Energeticism

The Deductive Process

The Inductive Process

The Non-substantial Individual: Information and Compatibility

Relativistic Conception and the Notion of Physical Individuation

Quantum Theory; Notion of the Elementary Physical Operation That Integrates the Complementary Aspects of the Continuous and the Discontinuous

The Theory of the Double Solution in Wave Mechanics

Topology, Chronology and Order of Magnitude of Physical Individuation

pt. II THE INDIVIDUATION OF LIVING BEINGS

1. Information and Ontogenesis: Vital Individuation

Principles toward a Study of the Individuation of the Living Being

Information and Vital Individuation; Levels of Organization; Vital Activity and Psychical Activity

Successive Levels of Individuation: Vital, Psychical, Transindividual

Specific Form and Living Substance

Insufficiency of the Notion of Specific Form; Notion of the Pure Individual; Non-univocal Nature of the Notion of the Individual

The Individual as Polarity; Functions of Internal Genesis and of External Genesis

Individuation and Reproduction

Undifferentiation and Dedifferentation as Conditions of Reproductive Individuality

Information and Vital Individuation

Individuation and Regimes of Information

Regimes of Information and Rapports between Individuals

Individuation, Information, and the Structure of the Individual

Information and Ontogenesis

Notion of an Ontogenetic Problematic

Individuation and Adaptation

Limits of the Individuation of the Living. Central Characteristic of the Being. Nature of the Collective

From Information to Signification

Topology and Ontogenesis

2. Psychical Individuation

Signification and the Individuation of Perceptive Units

Segregation of Perceptive Units; the Genetic Theory and the Theory of Holistic Grasping; Determinism of Good Form

Psychical Tension and Degrees of Metastability. Good Form and Geometrical Form; the Different Types of Equilibrium

Relation between the Segregation of Perceptive Units and the Other Types of Individuation. Metastability and Information Theory in Technology and Psychology

Introduction of the Notion of Quantum Variation into the Representation of Psychical Individuation

The Perceptive Problematic; Quantity of Information, Quality of Information, Intensity of Information

Individuation and Affectivity

Consciousness and Individuation; the Quantum Nature of Consciousness

Signification of Affective Subconsciousness

Affectivity in Communication and Expression

The Transindividual

Anxiety

The Affective Problematic: Affection and Emotion

Psychical Individuation and the Problematic of Ontogenesis

Signification as Criterion of Individuation

The Relation to the Milieu

Individuation, Individualization, and Personalization. Bi-substantialism

Insufficiency of the Notion of Adaptation to Explain Psychical Individuation

The Problematic of Reflexivity in Individuation

The Necessity of Psychical Ontogenesis

3. Collective Individuation and the Foundations of the Transindividual

The Individual and the Social, Group Individuation

Social Time and Individual Time

Inferiority Groups and Exteriority Groups

Social Reality as a System of Relations

Insufficiency of the Notion of the Essence of Man and of Anthropology

Notion of Group Individual

Role of Belief in the Group Individual

Group Individuation and Vital Individuation

Pre-individual Reality and Spiritual Reality: The Phases of Being

The Collective as Condition of Signification

Subjectivity and Signification; the Transindividual Character of Signification

Subject and Individual

The Empirical and the Transcendental. Ontogenesis and Pre-critical Ontology. The Collective as Signification That Overcomes a Disparation

The Central Operational Zone of the Transindividual: Theory of Emotion

v. II SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS

1. Values and the Search for Objectivity

Relative Values and Absolute Values

The Dark Zone between the Substantialism of the Individual and Integration into the Group

The Problematic of and Search for Compatibility

Conscience and Ethical Individuation

Ethics and the Process of Individuation

2. Individuation and Invention

The Technician as Pure Individual

The Technical Operation as a Condition of Individuation. Invention and Autonomy; Community and Technical Transindividual Relation

Individuation of the Products of Human Effort

The Individuating Attitude in the Human Relation to the Invented Technical Being

Allagmatic Nature of the Individuated Technical Object

History of the Notion of the Individual

One. Toward a Theory of Description

Two. James's Airs

Three. Proust and the Effects of Analogy

Four. Feeling with Woolf

Five. The Ends of Description.

Notes:

"Originally published in French as L'individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information, copyright Éditions Jerôme Millon, 2005."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780816680016

0816680019

9780816680023

0816680027

9781517909512

1517909511

9781517909529

151790952X

OCLC:

1128428300