What Makes Life Worth Living | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780745662718 | What Makes Life Worth Living | On Pharmacology | Bernard Stiegler

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Beschreibung

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a 'crisis of spirit', brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of mental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is at breaking point.

Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer capitalism, which systematically immiserates those whom it purports to liberate. Returning to Marx's theory, Stiegler argues that consumerism marks a new stage in the history of proletarianization. It is no longer just labour that is exploited, pushed below the limits of subsistence, but the desire that is characteristic of human spirit.

The cure to this malaise is to be found in what Stiegler calls a 'pharmacology of the spirit'. Here, pharmacology has nothing to do with the chemical supplements developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmakon, defined as both cure and poison, refers to the technical objects through which we open ourselves to new futures, and thereby create the spirit that makes us human. By reference to a range of figures, from Socrates, Simondon and Derrida to the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Stiegler shows that technics are both the cause of our suffering and also what makes life worth living.

Über den Autor

Bernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His many books in English include Technics and Time, For a New Critique of Political Economy, The Decadence of Industrial Democracies and Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: A Continent on the Move 1

1 Myriad Challenges and Opportunities 5

2 A Demographic Dividend or Just More People? 21

3 Tropical Dilemmas: Disease, Water, and More 35

4 Educating Future Generations 55

5 To War Rather than to Prosper 69

6 Accountability and the Wages of Corrupt Behavior 91

7 The Infrastructural Imperative 116

8 Harnessing Mobile Telephone Capabilities 134

9 China Drives Growth 151

10 Strengthening Governance 173

11 Creating Responsible Leadership 189

Notes 216

Select Bibliography 244

Index 252

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	200 S.
ISBN-13:	9780745662718
ISBN-10:	0745662714
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stiegler, Bernard
Übersetzung:	Ross, Daniel
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	216 x 136 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Bernard Stiegler
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.06.2013
Gewicht:	0,252 kg

Artikel-ID: 106064423