TY - BOOK AU - Kozatsas,Jannis TI - The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool: Philosophy, Archaeology and the Anthropology of Technology T2 - Praehistorica Mediterranea Series SN - 9781789694055 AV - CC72 .K693 2020 U1 - 930.1 PY - 2020/// CY - Oxford PB - Archaeopress KW - Archaeology-Philosophy KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Ackowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond -- I.1 Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism -- I.2 French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the "process" -- Appendix to I.2: The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks -- I.3 Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture -- PART II -- Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology -- II.1 Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory -- II.2 The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel -- PART III -- The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool -- III.1 Heidegger's phenomenology or the tool as not a tool -- III.2 Hegel's tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity -- Epilogue -- References N2 - A critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6032793 ER -