Returning to Judgment
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Returning to Judgment

Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political Theory

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Returning to Judgment

Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political Theory

About this book

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Returning to Judgment provides the first extensive treatment of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler and the first account of his significance for contemporary continental political thought. Ben Turner argues that Stiegler breaks with his predecessors in continental philosophy by advocating for, rather than retreating from, the task of proposing totalizing judgments on political problems that extend beyond the local and the particular. He shows that the reconciliation of judgment with continental political thought's commitment to anti-totalization structures the entirety of Stiegler's philosophy and demonstrates that this theory of the political decision highlights the difficulties that contemporary political ontology faces when addressing global and large-scale political problems. The book provides an overview of Stiegler's philosophy useful for those unfamiliar with his thought, shows how he draws on key influences including Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, and Simondon to develop his conception of judgment, and considers the challenges and consequences of his embrace of totalizing political decisions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Totalization and Judgment in Continental Political Theory
  7. 1 The Default of Origin
  8. 2 The Pharmakon
  9. 3 Individuation and General Organology
  10. 4 Libidinal Economy and Proletarianization
  11. 5 Stiegler’s Theory of Political Judgment
  12. 6 Judgments on the Impossible: Otium, Antigone, Amateurs
  13. 7 Neganthropology and the Problem of Judgment
  14. 8 The Polis as Judgment on the Origins of the Political
  15. Conclusion: A Pharmacology of the Political
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover