The dialectic of practice and the logical structure of the tool : philosophy, archaeology and the anthropology of technology /
The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symm...
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Language: English
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Summertown, Oxford :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,
2020.
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Praehistorica Mediterranea ;
volume 7.
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| Summary: | The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object -the socio-cultural and the natural- are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (92 pages). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781789694055 (ebook) : |