Open Humanities Press, 2020-01-12. Paperback. Good. 0.9449 9.0157 6.0236. Mild to Moderate creasing / bending to covers and pages. Book is otherwise very clean, unmarked and 100% functional. Date: 2001. Open Humanities Press ISBN 1785420801 9781785420801 [US]

ISBN10: 1785420801, ISBN13: 9781785420801, [publisher: Open Humanities Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - French philosopher Bernard Stiegler began his annual lecture series at Nanjing University in 2016, offering eight lectures per year. The first four years of these lectures are included in this volume and amount to a distillation of the movement of his work in this period as well as an engagement with China at a time when its place in the questions about the global future is becoming increasingly central. This movement and this engagement are in fact conjoined, because since 2014 Stiegler's questions have been increasingly concerned with global problems, that is, with thinking the so-called Anthropocene at a profound level and in relation to the philosophical failure to reckon with the manifold and indeed 'cosmic' consequences of the entropic and thermodynamic revolution. The first year's lectures introduce these questions via Stiegler's concept of automatic society and technological and speculative questions emerging from the work of Heidegger and Marx. The 2017 lectures begin with the decision of Oxford Dictionaries to make 'post-truth' the word of the year, taking this as an opportunity to understand the implications for Heidegger's 'history of being', 'history of truth' and Gestell, before entering into a lengthy and original consideration of the ...
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