Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information

Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, earlydrafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual From thermodynamics to gestalt theory to cybernetics, Gilbert Simondon's multifaceted philosophical and scholarly research will lead to an astounding reevaluation and questioning of the historical methods for posing the very question and notion of the individual. More than fifty years after its publication in French, this groundbreaking work of philosophical theory is now available in its first complete English language translation.