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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bernard Stiegler (Bernard Steigler: Centre Georges-Pompidou) , Daniel RossPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9780745662718ISBN 10: 0745662714 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 03 May 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction: A Continent on the Move 1 1 Myriad Challenges and Opportunities 5 2 A Demographic Dividend or Just More People? 21 3 Tropical Dilemmas: Disease, Water, and More 35 4 Educating Future Generations 55 5 To War Rather than to Prosper 69 6 Accountability and the Wages of Corrupt Behavior 91 7 The Infrastructural Imperative 116 8 Harnessing Mobile Telephone Capabilities 134 9 China Drives Growth 151 10 Strengthening Governance 173 11 Creating Responsible Leadership 189 Notes 216 Select Bibliography 244 Index 252ReviewsStiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension -- disastrously -- or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms. Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler's project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today -- and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.' Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension ? disastrously ? or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms. Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler?s project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today ? and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.? Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany """Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension – disastrously – or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms."" Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge ""This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler’s project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today – and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.’"" Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany" Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension - disastrously - or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms. Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler's project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today - and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.' Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany Author InformationBernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His many books in English include Technics and Time, For a New Critique of Political Economy, The Decadence of Industrial Democracies and Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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