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.

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.

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Publishing Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
73
Series
Print Edition Price
€ 9.90 RRP
License
CC-BY-SA 4.0 (except "Aspects of a Philosophy of the Living": CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0)
ISBNs
978-3-95796-070-2 (Print)
978-3-95796-071-9 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/015

The Author

Jean-Hugues Barthélémy is Director of the Centre international des études simondoniennes (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord / Fondation “pour la science”), editor and director of the Cahiers Simondon, and associated researcher at the laboratory EA 4414 HAR (University Paris Ouest—Nanterre La Défense). He is the author of several monographs on Simondon, including his recent Simondon (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014; translation forthcoming: Bloomsbury, 2016), and of many articles on contemporary French and German philosophy.

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