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The pharmakon, 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. From Socrates 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.
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"Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension - disastrously - or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms."
Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge
"This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler's project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today - and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.'"
Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany
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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.
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- EditorePolity
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 0745662714
- ISBN 13 9780745662718
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine178
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