Bernard Stiegler 1952 – 2020
Bernard Stiegler (1952 – 2020) was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy and Post-Structuralism.
Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher of technology, a former pupil of Jacques Derrida, and one of the most original thinkers of digital culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His three-volume Technics and Time argued, against Heidegger, that the human is constituted by its technical prostheses, and that there is no humanity prior to the tools through which it remembers and acts. In For a New Critique of Political Economy, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, and The Age of Disruption he diagnosed the cultural and psychic consequences of industrial and algorithmic capitalism, proposing the notion of the pharmakon, at once poison and remedy, as a key to political and educational repair.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy, Post-Structuralism
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“The human is technical through and through; there is no humanity prior to its tools.”
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“All technics is a pharmakon, at once poison and remedy.”
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“We must learn to live in the catastrophe.”
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“Memory is not internal to the brain; it is borne by the technical milieu in which it inscribes itself.”
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Attributed to Bernard Stiegler:
“To take care of the world is to take care of the conditions under which thinking remains possible.”
Frequently asked about Bernard Stiegler
- When did Bernard Stiegler live?
- Bernard Stiegler was born in 1952 and died in 2020.
- Where was Bernard Stiegler from?
- Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Bernard Stiegler associated with?
- Bernard Stiegler was associated with Continental Philosophy and Post-Structuralism.
- What was Bernard Stiegler known for?
- Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher of technology, a former pupil of Jacques Derrida, and one of the most original thinkers of digital culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- How many quotes are attributed to Bernard Stiegler?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Bernard Stiegler in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.