Stiegler and Technics / / Christina Howells, Gerald Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Howells, Christina,; Moore, Gerald,
• MitwirkendeR: Barker, Stephen,; Beardsworth, Richard,; Beistegui, Miguel De,; Crogan, Patrick,; Crowley, Martin,; Davis, Oliver,; Espinoza, Tania,; Fuggle, Sophie,; Howells, Christina,; James, Ian,; Johnson, Christopher,; Lewis, Michael,; Moore, Gerald,; Roberts, Ben,; Ross, Daniel,; Trottein, Serge,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Connections : CRCO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

The first collection of critical essays on the work of Bernard StieglerGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748677023','ISBN:9780748677016','ISBN:9780748677030','ISBN:9780748677047']);These 17 essays covers all aspects of Bernard Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, ‘libidinal economy’, technoscience and aesthetics, keeping a focus on his key theory of technics throughout. Stiegler brings together key concepts from Plato, Freud, Derrida and Simondon to argue that the human is ‘invented’ through technics rather than a product of purely biological evolution. Stiegler is a thinker at the forefront of our contemporary concerns with consumerism, technology, inter-generational division, political apathy and economic crisis. His ambitious project is to go beyond these sources of social distress to uncover and examine precisely ‘what makes life worth living’.Key FeaturesThe first serious collection of essays on Bernard Stiegler, one of the most important of a new generation of French philosophersA truly world-class list of international contributors, including the most prominent specialists on Stiegler and specialists on 20th and 21st-century poststructuralism, who integrate Stiegler into the broader context of French and continental thought and social theoryInterdisciplinary approach that draws on philosophy and art, anthropology, economics, media studies, cultural studies, politics and sociology, united around Stiegler's key concept of technicsWritten in a style suitable for students and academics alikeContributorsDan Ross • Stephen Barker • Michael Lewis • Christopher Johnson • Ian James • Gerald Moore • Tania Espinoza • Christina Howells • Oliver Davis • Richard Beardsworth • Serge Trottein • Sophie Fuggle • Ben Roberts • Miguel de Beistegui • Patrick Crogan • Martin Crowley"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Guide to Referencing -- Introduction: Philosophy – The Repression of Technics -- I: Anthropology – The Invention of the Human -- 1. Adapt and Smile or Die! Stiegler Among the Darwinists -- 2. The Prehistory of Technology: On the Contribution of Leroi-Gourhan -- 3. Of a Mythical Philosophical Anthropology: The Transcendental and the Empirical in Technics and Time -- 4. Technics and Cerebrality -- II: Aesthetics – The Industrialisation of the Symbolic -- 5. Technics, or the Fading Away of Aesthetics: The Sensible and the Question of Kant -- 6. Experience of the Industrial Temporal Object -- 7. The Artist and the Amateur, from Misery to Invention -- III: Psychoanalysis – The (De)sublimation of Desire -- 8. ‘Le Défaut d’origine’: The Prosthetic Constitution of Love and Desire -- 9. The Technical Object of Psychoanalysis -- 10. Desublimation in Education for Democracy -- IV: Politics – The Consumption of Spirit -- 11. The New Critique of Political Economy -- 12. Stiegler and Foucault: The Politics of Care and Self-Writing -- 13. Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler -- 14. Memories of Inauthenticity: Stiegler and the Lost Spirit of Capitalism -- V: Pharmacology – The Poison that is also a Cure -- 15. Pharmacology and Critique after Deconstruction -- 16. Techno-pharmaco-genealogy -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index