A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIETY by Manuel DeLanda ( 9780826491695 )

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Title:

A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIETY
ASSEMBLAGE THEORY AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY

By:

Manuel DeLanda

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0826491693

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9780826491695

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

7 September, 2006

Edition:

Annotated edition

Pages:

160

Description:

Offers a look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. This book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time to territorial states and beyond.

Synopsis:

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time all the way to territorial states and beyond. Only by experiencing this upward movement can we get a sense of the irreducible social complexity that characterizes the contemporary world.

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Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

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