 The Organized BodyTim Scott
Chapter 1 in Organization Philosophy, 2010, pp 9-33 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The title page of Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) is engraved with an image of the sovereign state as a body composed of a multiplicity of smaller human figures. The significance of this image for me here is that Leviathan is a pragmatic constitution of and for the material bodies of the people.1 Leviathan is an assemblage of corporeal parts brought under a unified relation to constitute a greater, more powerful, corporate body. Its power is symbolized by its massive sword and crook, secular and sacred authority invested in one entity. The constitution of individuals into a greater force is affirmed by the detail of Leviathan’s head, presented as a single great ‘organ’. If Leviathan’s active power is constituted by the power of its elemental bodies, the intellect needed to guide that power is a multiplicity of embodied minds unified into one great mind. This thesis examines the two complementary movements involved in this constitutional process: how multiple bodies are organized into larger, more powerful ones, and how sensations impinging on those bodies become thought. This double movement I invoke by the term organization. Keywords: Manual Dexterity; Corporate Body; Social Body; Practical Relation; Instinctual Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27755-7_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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