Overview
- First complete analysis of Simondon’s philosophy to span his entire oeuvre
- Includes detailed examination of his primary sources allowing explanation of his innovative language in the original context that inspired it
- Ground-breaking systematic analysis of the connections between Simondon’s political philosophy and his technical/scientific philosophy
- Discusses Simondon’s relevance to the contemporary debate over the ontological, ethical and political status of technical artefacts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 19)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Technicity, Sacredness and Politics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This combination of historiography and theory offers the growing Anglophone readership interested in the ideas of Gilbert Simondon a thorough and unprecedented survey of the French philosopher’s entire oeuvre. The publication, which breaks new ground in its thoroughness and breadth of analysis, systematically traces the interconnections between Simondon’s philosophy of science and technology on the one hand, and his political philosophy on the other.
The author sets Simondon’s ideas in the context of the epistemology of the late 1950s and the 1960s in France, the milieu that shaped a generation of key French thinkers such as Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida. This volume explores Simondon’s sources, which were as eclectic as they were influential: from the philosophy of Bergson to the cybernetics of Wiener, from the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty to the epistemology of Canguilhem, and from Bachelard’s philosophy of science to the positivist sociology and anthropologyof luminaries such as Durkheim and Leroi-Gourhan. It also tackles aspects of Simondon’s philosophy that relate to Heidegger and Elull in their concern with the ontological relationship between technology and society and discusses key scholars of Simondon such as Barthélémy, Combes, Stiegler, and Virno, as well as the work of contemporary protagonists in the philosophical debate on the relevance of technique. The author’s intimate knowledge of Simondon’s language allows him to resolve many of th
e semantic errors and misinterpretations that have plagued reactions to Simondon’s many philosophical neologisms, often drawn from his scientific studies.Reviews
“Bardin seems to offer a genuinely Simondonian analysis of the individuation of ‘simondon.’ As such, this text should be approached as an important contribution in Simondonian scholarship and thus of particular interest to readers of Simondon … . Bardin provides us with a fascinating study in the metastable structure of ‘Simondon,’ and his contribution on the question of the political in Simondon is an important step in the future of Simondonian scholarship.” (Donald A. Landes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, August, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrea Bardin studied at the University of Padua and Brunel University London. He is a founding member of the Centre international des études simondoniennes (MSH Paris Nord)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon
Book Subtitle: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems
Authors: Andrea Bardin
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9831-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9830-3Published: 20 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0097-7Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9831-0Published: 07 April 2015
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 251
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy