- Language english Pages 73
- Publishing Year 2015
- Series After Simondon Series
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ISBNs:
- 978-3-95796-070-2 (print)
- 978-3-95796-071-9 (PDF)
- DOI:
- 10.14619/015
- License:
- CC-BY-SA 4.0 (except "Aspects of a Philosophy of the Living": CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Life and Technology
An Inquiry Into and Beyond Simondon
The philosophy of Gilbert Simondon has reinvigorated contemporary thinking about biological and technological beings. In this book, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy takes up Simondon’s thought and shows how life and technology are connected by a transversal theme: individuation. In the first essay, Barthélémy delivers a contemporary interpretation of Simondon’s concept of ontogenesis against the backdrop of biology and cybernetics. In the second essay, he extends his reflections to propose a non-anthropological understanding of technology, and so sets up a confrontation with the work of Martin Heidegger.