{"title":"Gilbert Simondon","description":"\u003cp\u003eGilbert Simondon's works delve into the intricate processes of individuation and the philosophy of technology. His writing explores how entities emerge through interaction with their environments, offering profound insights into the nature of form, information, and human imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in philosophy and psychology will find Simondon’s ideas both challenging and illuminating, especially in understanding the dynamics of innovation and creative thought. His texts invite a reconsideration of how beings and systems evolve in relation to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-and-information-by-gilbert-simondon-9780816680023","title":"Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Democritus's atomism to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, from Aristotle's reflections on the individual to Husserl's call for a focused return to things, from the philosophical advent of the Cartesian ego and the Leibnizian monad to Heidegger's notion of Dasein, the question concerning the constitution of the individual has continued to loom large over the preoccupations of philosophers and scholars of scientific disciplines for thousands of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough conceptions in modern scientific areas of research such as thermodynamics, the fabrication of technical objects, gestalt theory, cybernetics, and the dynamic formation at work in the creation of crystals, Gilbert Simondon's unique multifaceted philosophical and scholarly research will eventually lead to an astounding reevaluation and questioning of the historical methods for posing the very question and notion of the individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than fifty years after its original publication in French, this groundbreaking work of philosophical theory is now available in its first complete English language translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndividuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to engage with these profound philosophical concepts in a modern context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000645599468,"sku":"9780816680023","price":98.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21012613482478.jpg?v=1763293222"},{"product_id":"imagination-and-invention-by-gilbert-simondon-9781517914455","title":"Imagination and Invention","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon's fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources—from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty—\u003cem\u003eImagination and Invention\u003c\/em\u003e provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon's earlier, highly influential work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism's relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558937084140,"sku":"9781517914455","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517914455-imagination-and-invention.jpg?v=1776923088"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/gilbert-simondon.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}