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Bernard Stiegler - Symbolic Misery, Volume 2: The Catastrophe of the Sensible - 9780745652672 - V9780745652672
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Symbolic Misery, Volume 2: The Catastrophe of the Sensible

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Description for Symbolic Misery, Volume 2: The Catastrophe of the Sensible Paperback. In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a 'katastroph of the sensible'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 370.

In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a �katastroph of the sensible�. This katastroph is not an apocalypse or the end of everything, but the denouement of a drama; it is the final act in the process of psychic and collective individuation known as the �West�.

Hyper-industrialization has brought about the loss of symbolic participation and the destruction of primordial narcissism, the very condition for individuation. It is in this context that artists have a unique ... Read more

This highly original work - the second in Stiegler�s Symbolic Misery series - will be of particular interest to students in philosophy, media and cultural studies, contemporary art and sociology, and will consolidate Stiegler�s reputation as one of the most original cultural theorists of our time.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745652672
SKU
V9780745652672
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-38

About Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler is the Director of Cultural Development at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Reviews for Symbolic Misery, Volume 2: The Catastrophe of the Sensible
"What links Andy Warhol, Bela Bartok, Glenn Gould and Joseph Beuys? This, says Stiegler: each in his own way understood the decisive changes brought about in the arts by their entanglement in networks of industrial production and commercial consumption, and each also realized that this entanglement called into question whether any of us - actual or merely potential artists - ... Read more

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