Stiegler and technics / edited by Christina Howells and Gerald Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howells, Christina, Author.

Contributor:

Howells, Christina.

Moore, Gerald, Dr.

Series:

Critical connections (Edinburgh University Press)

Critical connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stiegler, Bernard.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Imprint""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations and Guide to Referencing""; ""Introduction: Philosophy � The Repression of Technics""; ""Section 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""; ""Section II: Aesthetics � The Industrialisation of the Symbolic""

""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""; ""Section V: Pharmacology � The Poison that is also a Cure""; ""15 Pharmacology and Critique after Deconstruction""; ""16 Techno-pharmaco-genealogy""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 7, 2013).

ISBN:

9780748677030

0748677038

OCLC:

862614068