{"product_id":"what-makes-life-worth-living-on-pharmacology-hardback-9780745662701","title":"What Makes Life Worth Living; On Pharmacology (Hardback) 9780745662701","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhat Makes Life Worth Living\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn Pharmacology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernard Stiegler (Author), Daniel Ross (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745662701, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.4 x 2 cm, 0.354 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin Crowley, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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.’\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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 the fragile life of the mind is at breaking point. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer capitalism, which systematically immiserates those whom it purports to liberate. Returning to Marx’s theory, Stiegler argues that consumerism marks a new stage in the history of proletarianization. It is no longer just labour that is exploited, pushed below the limits of subsistence, but the desire that is characteristic of human spirit. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The cure to this malaise is to be found in what Stiegler calls a ‘pharmacology of the spirit’. Here, pharmacology has nothing to do with the chemical supplements developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmakon, defined as both cure and poison, refers to the technical objects through which we open ourselves to new futures, and thereby create the spirit that makes us human. By reference to a range of figures, from Socrates, Simondon and Derrida to the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Stiegler shows that technics are both the cause of our suffering and also what makes life worth living.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Continent on the Move 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Myriad Challenges and Opportunities 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Demographic Dividend or Just More People? 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Tropical Dilemmas: Disease, Water, and More 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Educating Future Generations 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 To War Rather than to Prosper 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Accountability and the Wages of Corrupt Behavior 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Infrastructural Imperative 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Harnessing Mobile Telephone Capabilities 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 China Drives Growth 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Strengthening Governance 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Creating Responsible Leadership 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 216\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography 244\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 252\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407328768280,"sku":"9780745662701","price":42.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745662701.jpg?v=1784162516","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-makes-life-worth-living-on-pharmacology-hardback-9780745662701","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}