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| Publisher's Note |
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| Foreword: Introduction to the Problematic of Gilbert Simondon |
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| Introduction |
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Part I Physical Individuation |
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21 | (34) |
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Foundations of the Hylomorphic Schema: Technology of Form-Taking |
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21 | (16) |
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The Conditions of Individuation |
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21 | (8) |
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Validity of the Hylomorphic Schema; the Dark Zone of the Hylomorphic Schema; Generalization of the Notion of Form-Taking; Modeling, Molding, Modulation |
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29 | (3) |
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Limits of the Hylomorphic Schema |
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32 | (5) |
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Physical Signification of Technical Form-Taking |
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37 | (10) |
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Physical Conditions of Technical Form-Taking |
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37 | (4) |
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Qualities and Implicit Physical Forms |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (4) |
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The Two Aspects of Individuation |
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47 | (8) |
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Reality and Relativity of the Foundation of Individuation |
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47 | (4) |
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The Energetic Foundation of Individuation: Individuation and Milieu |
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51 | (4) |
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55 | (40) |
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Structures and Potential Energy |
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55 | (13) |
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The Potential Energy and the Reality of the System; Equivalence of Potential Energies; Dissymmetry and Energetic Exchanges |
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55 | (6) |
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Different Orders of Potential Energy; Notions of Phase Changes and of the Stable and Metastable Equilibrium of a State. Tammann's Theory |
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61 | (7) |
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Individuation and System States |
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68 | (27) |
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Individuation and Crystalline Allotropic Forms; Being and Relation |
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68 | (9) |
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Individuation as the Genesis of Crystalline Forms Starting from an Amorphous State |
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77 | (11) |
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Epistemological Consequences: Reality of Relation and the Notion of Substance |
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88 | (7) |
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95 | (72) |
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Continuous and Discontinuous |
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95 | (15) |
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Functional Role of Discontinuity |
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95 | (3) |
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The Antinomy of the Continuous and the Discontinuous |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (10) |
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110 | (16) |
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Substantialism and Energeticism |
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110 | (2) |
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112 | (10) |
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122 | (4) |
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The Non-substantial Individual: Information and Compatibility |
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126 | (41) |
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Relativistic Conception and the Notion of Physical Individuation |
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126 | (9) |
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Quantum Theory; Notion of the Elementary Physical Operation That Integrates the Complementary Aspects of the Continuous and the Discontinuous |
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135 | (14) |
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The Theory of the Double Solution in Wave Mechanics |
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149 | (9) |
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Topology, Chronology and Order of Magnitude of Physical Individuation |
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158 | (9) |
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Part II The Individuation of Living Beings |
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1 Information and Ontogenesis: Vital Individuation |
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167 | (90) |
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Principles toward a Study of the Individuation of the Living Being |
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167 | (13) |
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Information and Vital Individuation; Levels of Organization; Vital Activity and Psychical Activity |
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167 | (10) |
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Successive Levels of Individuation: Vital, Psychical, Transindividual |
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177 | (3) |
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Specific Form and Living Substance |
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180 | (28) |
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Insufficiency of the Notion of Specific Form; Notion of the Pure Individual; Non-univocal Nature of the Notion of the Individual |
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180 | (5) |
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The Individual as Polarity; Functions of Internal Genesis and of External Genesis |
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185 | (3) |
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Individuation and Reproduction |
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188 | (11) |
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Undifferentiation and Dedifferentation as Conditions of Reproductive Individuality |
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199 | (9) |
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Information and Vital Individuation |
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208 | (17) |
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Individuation and Regimes of Information |
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208 | (7) |
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Regimes of Information and Rapports between Individuals |
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215 | (6) |
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Individuation, Information, and the Structure of the Individual |
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221 | (4) |
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Information and Ontogenesis |
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225 | (32) |
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Notion of an Ontogenetic Problematic |
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225 | (6) |
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Individuation and Adaptation |
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231 | (5) |
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Limits of the Individuation of the Living. Central Characteristic of the Being Nature of the Collective |
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236 | (8) |
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From Information to Signification |
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244 | (6) |
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250 | (7) |
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2 Psychical Individuation |
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257 | (70) |
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Signification and the Individuation of Perceptive Units |
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257 | (15) |
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Segregation of Perceptive Units; the Genetic Theory and the Theory of Holistic Grasping; Determinism of Good Form |
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257 | (3) |
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Psychical Tension and Degrees of Metastability. Good Form and Geometrical Form; the Different Types of Equilibrium |
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260 | (1) |
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Relation between the Segregation of Perceptive Units and the Other Types of Individuation. Metastability and Information Theory in Technology and Psychology |
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261 | (3) |
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Introduction of the Notion of Quantum Variation into the Representation of Psychical Individuation |
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264 | (1) |
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The Perceptive Problematic; Quantity of Information, Quality of Information, Intensity of Information |
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265 | (7) |
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Individuation and Affectivity |
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272 | (19) |
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Consciousness and Individuation; the Quantum Nature of Consciousness |
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272 | (1) |
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Signification of Affective Subconsciousness |
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273 | (1) |
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Affectivity in Communication and Expression |
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274 | (3) |
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277 | (5) |
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282 | (3) |
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The Affective Problematic: Affection and Emotion |
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285 | (6) |
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Psychical Individuation and the Problematic of Ontogenesis |
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291 | (36) |
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Signification as Criterion of Individuation |
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291 | (4) |
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The Relation to the Milieu |
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295 | (1) |
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Individuation, Individualization, and Personalization Bi-substantialism |
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296 | (8) |
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Insufficiency of the Notion of Adaptation to Explain Psychical Individuation |
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304 | (4) |
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The Problematic of Reflexivity in Individuation |
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308 | (11) |
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The Necessity of Psychical Ontogenesis |
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319 | (8) |
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3 Collective Individuation and the Foundations of the Transindividual |
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327 | (74) |
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The Individual and the Social, Group Individuation |
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327 | (17) |
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Social Time and Individual Time |
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327 | (1) |
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Inferiority Groups and Exteriority Groups |
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328 | (2) |
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Social Reality as a System of Relations |
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330 | (2) |
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Insufficiency of the Notion of the Essence of Man and of Anthropology |
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332 | (2) |
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Notion of Group Individual |
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334 | (1) |
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Role of Belief in the Group Individual |
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335 | (1) |
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Group Individuation and Vital Individuation |
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336 | (5) |
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Pre-individual Reality and Spiritual Reality: The Phases of Being |
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341 | (3) |
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The Collective as Condition of Signification |
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344 | (12) |
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Subjectivity and Signification; the Transindividual Character of Signification |
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344 | (4) |
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348 | (1) |
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The Empirical and the Transcendental. Ontogenesis and Pre-critical Ontology. The Collective as Signification That Overcomes a Disparation |
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349 | (1) |
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The Central Operational Zone of the Transindividual: Theory of Emotion |
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350 | (6) |
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356 | (25) |
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381 | (16) |
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397 | (4) |
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VOLUME II SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS |
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| Complementary Note on the Consequences of the Notion of Individuatio |
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401 | (2) |
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1 Values and the Search for Objectivity |
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403 | (9) |
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Relative Values and Absolute Values |
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403 | (2) |
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The Dark Zone between the Substantialism of the Individual and Integration into the Group |
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405 | (2) |
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The Problematic of and Search for Compatibility |
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407 | (1) |
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Conscience and Ethical Individuation |
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408 | (1) |
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Ethics and the Process of Individuation |
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409 | (3) |
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2 Individuation and Invention |
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412 | (243) |
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The Technician as Pure Individual |
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412 | (1) |
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The Technical Operation as a Condition of Individuation. Invention and Autonomy; Community and Technical Transindividual Relation |
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413 | (5) |
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Individuation of the Products of Human Effort |
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418 | (5) |
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The Individuating Attitude in the Human Relation to the Invented Technical Being |
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423 | (5) |
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Allagmatic Nature of the Individuated Technical Object |
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428 | (7) |
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History of the Notion of the Individual |
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435 | (220) |
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Analysis of the Criteria of Individuality |
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655 | (8) |
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663 | (11) |
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Form, Information, and Potentials |
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674 | (27) |
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