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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kozatsas, Jannis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown Archaeopress, [2020]
Colección:Praehistorica mediterranea ; vol. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction ; PART I: A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond ; Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism ; French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the 'process' ; The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks ; Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture ; PART II: Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology ; Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory ; The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel ; PART III: The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool ; Heidegger's phenomenology or the tool as not a tool ; Hegel's tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity ; Epilogue ; References.