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Author Kozatsas, Jannis, author.

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

Publication Info. Summertown Archaeopress, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (90 pages).
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Series Praehistorica Mediterranea Ser. ; v. 7
Praehistorica mediterranea ; vol. 7.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
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Subject Archaeology -- Philosophy.
Archaeology -- Philosophy.
Tools -- History -- Philosophy.
History.
Philosophy.
Tools.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 1789694043 9781789694048 (OCoLC)1131879237
ISBN 9781789694055 (electronic book)
1789694051 (electronic book)
9781789694048 (paperback)
1789694043 (paperback)