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His distinctive style encourages deep reflection on the structures underlying social and physical worlds alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-new-philosophy-of-society-by-professor-manuel-delanda-9780826491695","title":"A New Philosophy of Society","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist, and philosopher. 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Since most social entities, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if our cognitive abilities 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe argues that Gilles Deleuze’s theory of assemblages provides a framework in which sociologists and geographers studying social networks and regions can properly locate their work and fully elucidate the connections between them. 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DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze in the domain of the philosophy of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory, and chaos theory to bring new insights to our understanding of scientific knowledge liberated from traditional ideas of essence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this edition includes a new preface by DeLanda, revisiting the themes of his book ten years on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000649236716,"sku":"9781780937991","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2080533482822.jpg?v=1763293504"},{"product_id":"materialist-phenomenology-by-professor-manuel-delanda-9781350263956","title":"Materialist Phenomenology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging the scientific disciplines of biology, ecological psychology, neuroscience, and robotics, the philosophical notion of 'the embodied mind', and the mathematical theories of dynamic systems, \u003cem\u003eMaterialist Phenomenology\u003c\/em\u003e forms a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is a transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000681185516,"sku":"9781350263956","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20551843482668.jpg?v=1763296208"},{"product_id":"philosophical-chemistry-by-professor-manuel-delanda-9781474286404","title":"Philosophical Chemistry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilosophical Chemistry\u003c\/em\u003e furthers Manuel DeLanda’s revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda’s historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization, and hybridization through the fields and subfields of chemistry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe strategy followed uses a series of chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty-year periods (1750, 1800, 1850, and 1900), to follow the historical formation of consensus practices. The three chapters deal with one subfield of chemistry in the century in which it was developed: eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. This book creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific practice. 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