Philosophising by Accident provides not only the most accessible introduction to the work of Bernard Stiegler, but perhaps also the most seductive. The interviews brilliantly interweave his re-readings of the history of philosophy and its 'repression' of technics with glimpses into the unique biography of one of the major intellectual figures of the twenty-first century.

- Gerald Moore, Durham University,

This new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted in December 2002 at France Culture with Élie During, is the best introduction to Stiegler’s Time and Technics series. This collection includes a new interview conducted specially for this volume and an interview with Artpress from 2001. In Philosophising By Accident, Stiegler introduces some of the key arguments about the technical constitution of the human and its relation to politics, aesthetics and economics. He reads philosophical texts from the perspective of his controversial thesis about the three types of memory and speaks about concepts central to his later works, such as synchrony/diachrony, grammatisation and the industrial temporal object.
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This new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted in December 2002 at France Culture with Élie During, is the best introduction to Stiegler’s Time and Technics series. This collection includes a new interview conducted specially for this volume and an interview with Artpress from 2001.
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Notes on the English TranslationTranslator’s Introduction: Radiographing Philosophy 1 Philosophy and Technics2 Technics as Memory3 Consciousness in the age of industrial temporal objects4 Consciousness, the unconscious and the unscienceAppendix 1 - The Technologisation of Memory (Artpress interview, 2001)Appendix 2 - Becoming the quasi-cause of the accident (interview with B. Dillet, 2014)
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The first English-language translation of Philosophising by Accident, which is now out of print in the original French version, making it available to an international audience

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474408233
Publisert
2017-05-10
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
189 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Edited and translated by

Om bidragsyterne

Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher. He is head of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He is also the founder of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, Ecole de Philosophie d’Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. His works include the three-volume series Technics and Time (now out of print in France) translated into English and published by Stanford University Press (1998, 2009, 2011). Philosopher par accident was published in 2004 by Galilée and is now out of print. Benoît Dillet is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. He is co-editor of Technologiques: La Pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler (Cécile Defaut, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2013; paperback).