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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
5 Technics, or the Fading Away of Aesthetics: The Sensible and the Question of Kant6 Experience of the Industrial Temporal Object; 7 The Artist and the Amateur, from Misery to Invention; Section III: Psychoanalysis -- The (De)sublimation of Desire; 8 'Le Défaut d'origine': the prosthetic constitution of love and desire; 9 The Technical Object of Psychoanalysis; 10 Desublimation in Education for Democracy; Section IV: Politics -- The Consumption of Spirit; 11 The New Critique of Political Economy; 12 Stiegler and Foucault: The Politics of Care and Self-Writing
13 Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler14 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
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
