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Thinking the Problematic

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This book explores central scenes and conceptual elaborations of what historically has been called “the problem” or “the problematic.” The chapters contextualize the (re-)arising of this notion wit...
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The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with generalized management ideas and technocratic models of science. This book explores central scenes, conceptual elaborations, and practical affiliations of what historically has been called »the problem« or »the problematic«. By way of considering modes of problematization as modes of inhabitation, intervention, and transformation the contributions map its current conceptual-political uses as well as onto-epistemological challenges. Thus, »problematization« is positioned as a critical concept that links, often in intricate ways, several currents from speculative philosophy to the formation of interdisciplinary fields. The »problematic«, as it turns out, has been the source of change in philosophy and the sciences all along.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 October 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837646405
Format: Paperback
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PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / History

Oliver Leistert is a media and technologies researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He did his doctorate in media studies at University Paderborn and was a research fellow at Central European University in Budapest.
Isabell Schrickel is a doctoral researcher at Leuphana University. Her main areas of research are the history of science, environmental humanities and media studies.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction to Thinking the Problematic: Decentring as Method and Ethos 9
The Problems of Modern Societies — Epistemic Design around 1970 35
The Problematic of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Sciences 69
A Genealogical Perspective on the Problematic: From Jacques Martin to Louis Althusser 93
'The problem itself persists': Problems as Missing Links between Concepts and Theories in Canguilhem's Historical Epistemology 109
Compositional Methodology: On the Individuation of a Problematic of the Contemporary 127
From Critique to Problems and the Politics of the In-act with Bergson, Deleuze and James 153
Pragmatics of a World To-Be-Made 179
About the Authors 195