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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2020]

Summary:

A critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright information

Contents

Ackowledgements

Introduction

PART I

A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond

I.1 Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism

I.2 French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the "process"

Appendix to I.2: The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks

I.3 Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture

PART II

Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology

II.1 Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory

II.2 The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel

PART III

The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool

III.1 Heidegger's phenomenology or the tool as not a tool

III.2 Hegel's tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity

Epilogue

References.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789694055

1789694051