Reviews
"Bernard Stiegler is among the most important and original French philosophers to emerge after the generation of Derrida and Deleuze, broadly more consequent-and more of a 21st century thinker-than some better known names. With the two short and more "personal" monographs that formActing Out, he will reach a wider audience and find his way toward the center of critical debate. Both monographs are superb portals to his thought and are seminal episodes in his vaster project.How I Became a Philosopher, a fascinating and arresting account of the non-academic "origins" of Stiegler as writer-thinker, raises the specter of where philosophy "changes the world" (Marx), but also where the world can be reinscribed in a philosophic-social act of an authorship;To Love, To Love Me, To Love Usinterrogates the figure of "love" in the context of a contemporary "technology of the spirit," penetrating and challenging the cognitive regimes of contemporary politics." -Tom Cohen, SUNY at Albany, "Bernard Stiegler is among the most important and original French philosophers to emerge after the generation of Derrida and Deleuze, broadly more consequent-and more of a 21st century thinker-than some better known names. With the two short and more "personal" monographs that form Acting Out , he will reach a wider audience and find his way toward the center of critical debate. Both monographs are superb portals to his thought and are seminal episodes in his vaster project. How I Became a Philosopher , a fascinating and arresting account of the non-academic "origins" of Stiegler as writer-thinker, raises the specter of where philosophy "changes the world" (Marx), but also where the world can be reinscribed in a philosophic-social act of an authorship; To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us interrogates the figure of "love" in the context of a contemporary "technology of the spirit," penetrating and challenging the cognitive regimes of contemporary politics." -Tom Cohen, SUNY at Albany, "Bernard Stiegler is among the most important and original French philosophers to emerge after the generation of Derrida and Deleuze, broadly more consequent—and more of a 21st century thinker—than some better known names. With the two short and more "personal" monographs that form Acting Out , he will reach a wider audience and find his way toward the center of critical debate. Both monographs are superb portals to his thought and are seminal episodes in his vaster project. How I Became a Philosopher , a fascinating and arresting account of the non-academic "origins" of Stiegler as writer-thinker, raises the specter of where philosophy "changes the world" (Marx), but also where the world can be reinscribed in a philosophic-social act of an authorship; To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us interrogates the figure of "love" in the context of a contemporary "technology of the spirit," penetrating and challenging the cognitive regimes of contemporary politics." —Tom Cohen, SUNY at Albany, "Bernard Stiegler is among the most important and original French philosophers to emerge after the generation of Derrida and Deleuze, broadly more consequent--and more of a 21st century thinker--than some better known names. With the two short and more "personal" monographs that form Acting Out , he will reach a wider audience and find his way toward the center of critical debate. Both monographs are superb portals to his thought and are seminal episodes in his vaster project. How I Became a Philosopher , a fascinating and arresting account of the non-academic "origins" of Stiegler as writer-thinker, raises the specter of where philosophy "changes the world" (Marx), but also where the world can be reinscribed in a philosophic-social act of an authorship; To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us interrogates the figure of "love" in the context of a contemporary "technology of the spirit," penetrating and challenging the cognitive regimes of contemporary politics." --Tom Cohen, SUNY at Albany