Organisation - philosophische Exposition eines sozialwissenschaftlichen Grundbegriffs

“Organization - a Philosophical Exposition of a Basic Concept of the Social Sciences.” The contemporary debate on the social-ontological foundations of organization does, for methodological reasons, not sufficiently get grip on the phenomenon of organization. The original determinacy of organization remains presupposed. To render this implicit meaning - of what organization is - explicit, another, more embracing and in-depth methodology is needed. German idealist types of philosophy provide an extreme powerful methodology. However, in the philosophy of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, neo-Kantianism up to contemporary transcendental philosophy, the idea of organization is not addressed. Rather, it is a big challenge to construct the idea of organization from such an idealist perspective: the perspective of reason, and with that, of freedom. This results in a new framework for dealing with organization in theory and practice. Focusing on methodological aspects, this chapter constructs the very idea of organization within the philosophical framework of G. W. F. Hegel.