Returning to judgment : Bernard Stiegler and continental political theory / Ben Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Ben (Political theory lecturer), author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Totalization and Judgment in Continental Political Theory

The Critique of Totalization and the Legacy of Continental Political Theory

Totalization, Judgment, and Capitalism

Totalization, Ontology, and the Human

The Philosophy of Technics and the Problem of Totalization

Brief Considerations on Method and Chapter Outline

1 The Default of Origin

Rousseau, Leroi-Gourhan, and the Problem of the Double Origin

Metaphysics, Myth, and the A-Transcendental

The Default of the Political

Conclusion: The A-Transcendental and the Political

2 The Pharmakon

The Pharmakon in Plato, Derrida, and Stiegler

The Two Regimes of Différance

Human Exceptionalism and the Pharmakon

Quasi-Causality, Stupidity, and the Political

Conclusion: The Pharmacology of Political Judgment

3 Individuation and General Organology

Individuation and Transduction in Stiegler's Reading of Simondon

Principles of General Organology

Automatisms, Repetition, and the A-Transcendental

Conclusion: The Conditionality of the Political

4 Libidinal Economy and Proletarianization

Desire without Ontology

Elements of a Technical Libidinal Economy

Capitalism and the Destruction of Desire

Proletarianization and the Destruction of Knowledge

Conclusion: The Closure of Non-Totalization

5 Stiegler's Theory of Political Judgment

Continental Political Theory and the Nature of Political Judgment

Stiegler's Theory of Judgment

Technics and the Impolitical

Anthropology and the Conditionality of Political Judgment

Conclusion: Judgment and the Challenge of Non-Totalization

6 Judgments on the Impossible: Otium, Antigone, Amateurs

Impossibility and Technics

The "Otium of the People"

The Antigone Complex

"Everyone an Artist": Amateurs and Aesthetic Politics.

Conclusion: The A-Transcendental and the Impossible

7 Neganthropology and the Problem of Judgment

Epistemology and Politics after Entropy

Metaphysics and the Subject of Neganthropology

Neganthropology, the Unruly Human, and the Politics of Order

Conclusion: An Energetic Conservatism?

8 The Polis as Judgment on the Origins of the Political

The Two Political Forms of Individuation

The Pharmacological Origins of the Political

Historical Judgments and the Totalization of the Political

Conclusion: The Many Origins of the Political

Conclusion: A Pharmacology of the Political

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on March 4, 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Turner, Ben Returning to Judgment

ISBN:

9781438492049

1438492049

OCLC:

1370495860