| List of Figures | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xii |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Guide to the text | p. 3 |
| The Organized Body | p. 9 |
| The organic sense of organization | p. 10 |
| Organ-Machines | p. 13 |
| Anthropology and organization: Gehlen's Man | p. 15 |
| Man's burden and relief | p. 16 |
| Burden and relief in the organization of mind | p. 18 |
| Man's affective response to world-openness: Motivation, work and organization | p. 19 |
| Embodiment and organization in sociology | p. 23 |
| Internal and external disciplines of embodiment | p. 25 |
| Examples of embodiment: (I) Sitting and walking | p. 27 |
| Examples of embodiment: (II) The hand | p. 29 |
| The mutual organization of hand and mind | p. 32 |
| Technologies of Embodiment | p. 34 |
| A medicine of species | p. 35 |
| The primary spatialization of pathology | p. 36 |
| The secondary spatialization of pathology | p. 39 |
| The tertiary spatialization of pathology | p. 42 |
| The common syntax of illness and speech | p. 44 |
| The glance and the knife: Dissection and organization | p. 46 |
| Clinical organization: The role of medical technology | p. 48 |
| The stethoscope | p. 49 |
| The spatialization of medical technology | p. 50 |
| The ophthalmoscope and ophthalmometer | p. 53 |
| The laryngoscope | p. 56 |
| The X-ray | p. 57 |
| Subjective Empiricism and Organization | p. 59 |
| How mind is organized into a subject by the natural principles of association | p. 62 |
| Sensation and Organization | p. 66 |
| The general rules: Artifice and organization | p. 68 |
| Hume's critique of egoism: Partial sympathy, the natural unit of society | p. 71 |
| The rule of property | p. 73 |
| The institution as the social embodiment of practical reason | p. 75 |
| Hume's theory of power and organizational implications | p. 76 |
| Some further implications of Hume's empiricism: Relations and difference as the bases of organization | p. 79 |
| Conclusions: Hume and organization | p. 81 |
| Organization and Becoming | p. 83 |
| Hegel's logic of determination | p. 83 |
| Bergson's critique of the dialectic: Contingency and abstraction | p. 86 |
| Difference as the internal movement of being: Causa Sui | p. 89 |
| Organization is unforeseeable | p. 91 |
| Bergson's critique of the One and the Multiple | p. 95 |
| Against state philosophy: Order v. organization | p. 97 |
| Organization as the actualization of the virtual | p. 98 |
| Bergson's critique of possibility and realization as the locus of order: Virtuality and actualization as the locus of organization | p. 100 |
| The limits of Bergsonism: Differentiation is only the first part of organization | p. 101 |
| Difference and univocity: Towards an organizational logic | p. 103 |
| Organization and Affirmation | p. 107 |
| Nietzsche and critique | p. 107 |
| Total critique as re-evaluation: Pars Destruens, Pars Construens | p. 108 |
| Nietzsche's perspectivism | p. 110 |
| The form of the question in Nietzsche | p. 113 |
| Nielzsche's slave logic and master logic: Who wills organization? | p. 115 |
| Nietzsche's critique of humanism | p. 121 |
| Organization: Consciousness and the body | p. 123 |
| The path to self-consciousness in Hegel: Labour, desire and consumption | p. 125 |
| Nietzsche on labour, desire and consumption | p. 127 |
| Labour as human essence | p. 128 |
| Nietzsche's dicethrow: Will to power and eternal return | p. 130 |
| Organization: Will to power and eternal return | p. 132 |
| Organization: Burden or relief | p. 134 |
| Nietzsche and organization: Affirmation of affirmation | p. 135 |
| Organization as Joyful Practice | p. 138 |
| Spinoza's materialism: Substance, attributes and modes | p. 138 |
| Spinoza's expressivism and organization | p. 141 |
| Spinoza's analysis of power: Organization, a power to affect and to be affected | p. 143 |
| Spinoza's corporeal philosophy | p. 147 |
| Implications of Spinoza's corporeal philosophy for organization theory | p. 149 |
| The passive and the active body/organization | p. 150 |
| The embodied power of organization: The conatus | p. 153 |
| Desire is the desire for organization | p. 154 |
| Spinoza's adequate ideas: Understanding and organization | p. 156 |
| Towards a Spinozian ethics of organization | p. 159 |
| Spinoza's theory of Right | p. 161 |
| Spinoza's theory of Reason | p. 163 |
| The Common notions: Steps towards an organizational ecology | p. 164 |
| Forming common notions: A basic organizational principle | p. 166 |
| The common notions: An ethical practice of organization | p. 168 |
| Towards a new conception of organizational effectiveness | p. 171 |
| Conclusion | p. 174 |
| Glossary | p. 177 |
| Bibliography | p. 178 |
| Index | p. 185 |
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