Introduction

Tim Scott
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Tim Scott: University of St Andrews

A chapter in Organization Philosophy, 2010, pp 1-8 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This book comprises of six chapters on organizational philosophy viewed from a post-structural perspective. Each chapter addresses a somatic approach to organization theory and practice. My guiding principle is materialist in the philosophical sense: that organization refers to the embodiment of a multiple of parts into a larger, more coherent and powerful complex. This perspective draws on a long but neglected tradition of materialist thought holding to the belief that nothing exists but matter, its motions and modifications. Consciousness, which has preoccupied modern scholarship in this field, is by materialist thought seen as being of secondary importance to the affections of the body.

Keywords: Organization Theory; Real Organization; Eternal Return; Organization Philosophy; Somatic Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230277557_1

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