Totality

A totality is a whole, but often it means a certain type of whole. It normally refers to a whole that is thought about as or has an effectivity as a whole. So 'totalities' are really wholes thought about as wholes. It thus designates the constitution of a whole; that is to say a relation superior to its elements. The totality in this sense represents a system with internal relationships or alternatively an entity that does not relate to anything outside of itself. It is complete.

Totality Index Reference Translations Writing Recent Additions Links About/Contact Totality Keywords: Key figures: Critical: Totalisation; holism; plenitude; systems theory; structuralism; whole and parts; identity, functionalism Fichte Hegel Marx Althusser Jameson Lukacs Durkheim Bataille Debord Luhmann Bohm; Derrida Lyotard Martin Jay; Deleuze ; Levinas Badiou; Adorno; A totality is a whole, but often it means a certain type of whole. It normally refers to a whole that is thought about as or has an effectivity as a whole. So 'totalities' are really wholes thought about as wholes. It thus des

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