Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual

This welcome translation of Muriel Combes' seminal book provides a concise, lucid and eminently readable introduction to the complex thought of Gilbert Simondon. Originally published in France in 1999, Combes' book inspired a new wave of serious engagement with his thought by challenging obstinate characterisations of Simondon as just a 'thinker of technics', or as merely a 'source of inspiration'for more acclaimed philosophers (xxi). Turning attention to the key postulates of his theory of individuation, she instead seeks a reappraisal of Simondon as a philosopher whose work calls for a radical transformation in the terms through which we approach being.