This is Stiegler at his finest. This book offers a penetrating diagnosis of a contemporary configuration that links the shocks of modern political economy to profound transformations in the psychic sphere. But Stiegler also gives us a powerful argument
based on highly original interpretations of major thinkers
revealing the radical importance of technology for all human experience. This ... Read moreis in essence a call for a new Enlightenment, one appropriate to our digital age. David Bates, University of California Berkeley Stiegler poses the question of how reason can renew itself in the face of unfettered global capitalism and the economic ideologies which propel it. Moving decisively beyond French postructuralism his thinking creates new conceptual weapons with which thought and knowledge can renew their sense of responsibility and engagement in the early 21st century. Ian James, University of Cambridge Show Less