Stiegler and Technics (Critical Connections) - Softcover

Christina Howells; Gerald Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074867702X ISBN 13: 9780748677023

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Bernard 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. This collection of essays covers all aspects of Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, "libidinal economy," technoscience and aesthetics. Contributors include: Stephen Barker, University of California Irvine and translator of Steigler; Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris and translator of Stiegler; Miguel de Beistegui; University of Warwick; Marc Crepon, Ecole normale superieure and co-founder of Stiegler's think tank, Ars Industrialis; Daniel Ross, co-director of The Ister, the award-winning film on Heidegger, and translator of Stiegler; and Hugh J. Silverman, Stony Brook University.

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About the Author

Christina Howells is Professor of French at the Wadham College, Oxford University Gerald Moore is Lecturer in French at the Durham University

From the Back Cover

'Since publication of Technics and Time, 2, it has been clear that Bernard Stiegler understood, more incisively than almost all of his contemporaries, that the technological is political. Howells and Moore have assembled an impressive range of commentaries around that idea, in all its complexity, tracing the contours of a rich field that gives Stiegler's thinking its due, and laying out the terms for future discussion.' David Wills, Brown University The first collection of critical essays on the work of Bernard Stiegler Bernard Stiegler has recently emerged as one of the most significant and original thinkers in the new generation of French philosophers following Derrida and Deleuze. Drawing on art, anthropology, economics, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, politics and sociology, the essays in this collection, by a range of world-class specialists, are all united around Stiegler's key concept of technics, which, he argues, constitutes what it is to be human. Stiegler is revealed as a thinker at the forefront of our contemporary concerns with consumerism, technology, inter-generational division, political apathy and economic crisis. His ambitious project goes beyond these sources of social distress to uncover and examine precisely 'what makes life worth living'. Christina Howells is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Wadham College. Gerald Moore is Lecturer in French at Durham University. Cover image: Prototype of the replica of Chauvet cave, which contains some of the earliest known cave paintings. Picture taken on 12 October, 2012, in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (c) Jeff Pachoud/APF/Getty Images. Cover image: Picture taken on October 12, 2012 in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc of a prototype of painting of the facsimile of the Chauvet cave, which contains some of the earliest known cave paintings (c) Jeff Pachoud/APF/Getty Images. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

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Since publication of Technics and Time, 2, it has been clear that Bernard Stiegler understood, more incisively than almost all of his contemporaries, that the technological is political. Howells and Moore have assembled an impressive range of commentaries around that idea, in all its complexity, tracing the contours of a rich field that gives Stiegler s thinking its due, and laying out the terms for future discussion. David Wills, Brown UniversityThe first collection of critical essays on the work of Bernard StieglerBernard Stiegler has recently emerged as one of the most significant and original thinkers in the new generation of French philosophers following Derrida and Deleuze. Drawing on art, anthropology, economics, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, politics and sociology, the essays in this collection, by a range of world-class specialists, are all united around Stiegler s key concept of technics, which, he argues, constitutes what it is to be human. Stiegler is revealed as a thinker at the forefront of our contemporary concerns with consumerism, technology, inter-generational division, political apathy and economic crisis. His ambitious project goes beyond these sources of social distress to uncover and examine precisely what makes life worth living .Christina Howells is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Wadham College. Gerald Moore is Lecturer in French at Durham University.Cover image: Prototype of the replica of Chauvet cave, which contains some of the earliest known cave paintings. Picture taken on 12 October, 2012, in Vallon-Pont-d Arc © Jeff Pachoud/APF/Getty Images. Cover image: Picture taken on October 12, 2012 in Vallon-Pont-d Arc of a prototype of painting of the facsimile of the Chauvet cave, which contains some of the earliest known cave paintings © Jeff Pachoud/APF/Getty Images.Cover design:[EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074867702X
• ISBN 13: 9780748677023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Christina Howells, Gerald Moore