Filozofija i drustvo 2017 Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages: 526-542
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1703526K
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The very idea of organization: Towards a Hegelian exposition
Krijnen Christian (Vrije University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The contemporary debate on the social ontological foundations of organization
does not, for methodological reasons, sufficiently get a grip on the
phenomenon of organization. The original determinacy of organization remains
presupposed. To render this implicit meaning of organization explicit,
another, more embracing and in-depth methodology is needed. German idealist
types of philosophy provide an extremely powerful methodology. In the
philosophy of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, along with neo-Kantianism
and up to contemporary transcendental philosophy, however, the idea of
organization is not addressed. Indeed, it is a challenge to construct the
idea of organization from the perspective of German idealism: the perspective
of reason, and with that, of freedom. It results in a new framework for
dealing with organization in theory and practice. The article constructs the
idea of organization (and claims that it still makes sense to do so) within
the framework of G.W.F. Hegel. It shows where the issue of organization
should be addressed topologically in Hegel’s system of philosophy and what,
then, organization shows to be here speculatively.
Keywords: social ontology, organization, Hegel, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences