Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074864525X ISBN 13: 9780748645251

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Críticas:

A complete handbook for the student or researcher who is new to the work of Simondon.--Wil Kaiser"H-Disability" (01/01/0001) This is a most welcome volume on Gilbert Simondon, featuring essays by some of the finest theorists working today. It nicely complements the translation into English of Simondon's key texts and can be highly recommended to those working in the humanities and social sciences and looking for new models of thought.--Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick

Reseña del editor:

The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work in English Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone work, having been of great importance in France for many years. This first collection of essays, by renowned critics and philosophers, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought in numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem. This book offers an entry point to this influential thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy, philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political philosophy. Includes * a contextualising introduction * an important essay by Simondon himself * a glossary of 50 key terms in Simondon's work Keywords Gilbert Simondon; Technology; Individuation; Ontogenesis; Technicity