What makes life worth living

What makes life worth living: on pharmacology

by Stiegler, Bernard

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In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a 'crisis of spirit', brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, redu…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :What makes life worth living : on pharmacology / Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Daniel Ross.

Summary

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a 'crisis of spirit', brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of mental illness show that.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013
  • Edition:English edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2013

Notes

Originally published in French as Ce qui fait que la vie vaut la peine d'être vécue in 2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 169 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780745681924, 0745681921, 9780745681948, 0745681948
  • oclc:ocn873805697
  • LC Classification:B2430.S7523
  • Dewey Decimal:204.4

Table of Contents

Part 1. Pharmacology of spirit. Apocalypse without God -- Pathogenesis, normativity and the 'infidelity of the milieu' -- Pharmacology of nuclear fire, generalized automation and total proletarianization -- Part 2. Pharmacology of nihilism. The Thing, Kenosis and the power to infinitize -- Part 3. Pharmacology of capital. Economizing means taking care : the three limits of capitalism -- Part 4. Pharmacology of the question. The time of the question -- Disposable children.

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Subjects

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Inspiration & Pe… BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality Economics -- Philosophy Économie politique -- Philosophie Political science -- Philosophy RELIGION -- Christianity RELIGION -- Devotional Religion & Spirituality Sciences sociales -- Philosophie Social sciences -- Philosophy Spiritual life Valéry, Paul Vie spirituelle

Writers

Stiegler, Bernard Ross, Daniel

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