Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon by Andrea Bardin

Author:Andrea Bardin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

4Canguilhem formulates his hypothesis concerning the origin of the concept of adaptation within the same conceptual horizon of Simondon’s hypothesis on the ‘technical’ origins of hylomorphism (see above, Sect. 2.​1): ‘After a quarter of a century, this concept has received such an application in psychology and sociology, often inopportune, that it can only be used in the most critical spirit, even in biology. The psychosocial definition of the normal in terms of adaptedness implies a concept of society which surreptitiously and wrongly assimilates it to an environment, i.e. to a system of determinisms. On the contrary, it is a system of constraints which, already and before all relations between it and the environment, contains collective norms for evaluating the quality of these relations […] It is a popular concept describing technical activity. The human being adapts his tools and indirectly his organs and behaviour to this material, or to that situation’ (Canguilhem 1943: 213–14).

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