Technics and Time: The fault of EpimetheusAt the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamic of its own. Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkers such as Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger. |
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Contents
Introduction Si Theories of Technical Evolution 21 | 29 |
S2 Technology and Anthropology | 82 |
S3 Who? What? The Invention of the Human | 134 |
THE FAULT OF EPIMETHEUS | 142 |
Introduction | 183 |
Notes | 279 |
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| Title | Technics and Time: The fault of Epimetheus Meridian (Stanford University Press) Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) Volume 1 of Meridian Series Volume 1 of Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series Volume 1 of Technics and Time Volume 1 of Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus |
| Author | Bernard Stiegler |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0804730415, 9780804730419 |
| Length | 316 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern Social Science / General |
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