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Author Krijnen, Christian, author.

Title The very idea of organization : social ontology today : Kantian and Hegelian reconsiderations / by Christian H. Krijnen.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Series Critical studies in German idealism, 1878-9986 ; Volume 16
Critical studies in German idealism ; Volume 16. 1878-9986
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Abbreviations of Works Cited; Introduction; Chapter 1 What is Organization? From Organization Theory to Organizational Ontology; 1 Thinking about Organization; 2 Organization within the Perspective of Organization Studies; 2.1 Scott's Definitions; 2.2 Hatch and Cunliffe's Perspectives; 2.3 History and Classification of Organization Theory; 3 Let's Go Ontological: The Meta-Theoretical Debate; 3.1 The Challenge of Ontological Presuppositions; 3.2 The Meta-Theoretical Positions; 3.3 The Uncritical Foundation of Critical Realism.
4 Conclusion: Towards a New Meta-Perspective for OrganizationStudiesChapter 2 Towards an Idealist Social Ontology-Criticisms and Challenges; 1 Beyond Naturalism, Collective Intentionality, and Phenomenology; 2 Beyond Contemporary Philosophy of Recognition; 3 Speculative Idealism, Not Metaphysics; 3.1 Metaphysics, Logic, and the System of Philosophy; 3.2 The Phänomenologie in Hegel's Philosophical System; 4 Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit is Not Practical Philosophy; 5 Updating Idealism: A Methodological Guideline for ApproachingSocial Ontology; 6 Sociality as a Phantom in German Idealism.
6.1 The Rise of the Social in the Nineteenth Century6.2 Sociality and Practical Philosophy; 6.3 Hegel's Social Philosophy?; 6.4 Constructing the Social from Hegel's Philosophy; 7 Post-Hegelian History as a Resource; Chapter 3 Constructing Social Reality-From Kantian Transcendental Philosophy to a Hegelian Concept of the Social; 1 Neo-Kantianism; 2 Rickert's Axiological Foundations of Sociality; 2.1 Social Ontology; 2.2 The Social; 3 Contemporary Kantian Transcendental Philosophy; 3.1 On Transcendental Philosophy after 1945; 3.2 Hans Wagner's Concept of Sociality.
3.3 Werner Flach's Concept of Sociality4 Conclusion: The Social in Hegel's Philosophy; 4.1 Objective Spirit; 4.2 Natural Determinacy and Spirit; 4.3 Self-Formation versus Self-Knowledge; Chapter 4 Social Reality as Existence of Freedom-Hegelian versus Kantian Idealism on Actualizing Validity; 1 What Makes Up Actualizing Freedom?; 2 Cultural Realms as 'Facts at Hand'?; 3 Practical Philosophy and Realizing Validity; 4 An Equivocal Concept of Realization; 5 Realizing Validity as a Complex Issue: Contested Utility; 5.1 Realization of Validity: From the Conditional to the Unconditional Realm.
5.2 Realization as Manifestation of the Idea6 Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Very Idea of Organization-Phenomenology Revisited; 1 'Exposition'; 2 Unity and Diversity in Organization Theory; 2.1 Organization; 2.2 Organization Theory; 2.3 History of the Concept of Organization; 2.4 General Concept of Organization; 2.5 Perspectives on Organization; 2.6 Organization and Freedom; 2.7 Organization: Further Basic Features; Chapter 6 The Very Idea of Organization-A Hegelian Account; 1 Organization in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, Topologically; 1.1 Thematic Affinity.
Summary In The Very Idea of Organization Krijnen develops a new philosophical methodology for a social ontology in general and an organizational ontology in particular by rejuvenating the Kantian and Hegelian tradition of philosophy.
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Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Organizational sociology -- Philosophy.
Organizational sociology -- Philosophy.
Organizational sociology.
Ontology.
Ontology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Krijnen, Christian. Very idea of organization 9789004302907 (DLC) 2015023024 (OCoLC)913647333
ISBN 9789004302914 (electronic book)
9004302913 (electronic book)
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