Technika, individuace a symbolická mizérie: Politická dimenze filozofie Bernarda Stieglera

Čuříková, Alexandra

This work is concerned with the philosophical project of contemporary French thinker Bernard Stiegler. His thought exists at the borders of studies of technology, critical theory and phenomenology. It offers a unique conception of the interrelationship between humans and technologies, which allows for a creative reconceptualization of many of the central topics of philosophy, such as the nature of individuality or the relationship between an individual and the collective. Further it also opens new avenues of thinking within the classical topics of critical theory, like the criticism of contemporary consumer capitalism or of understanding the effects of culture industry. Stiegler's work itself is, however, spread amongst his many books and is made more difficult to understand by his use of many unique terms. The goal of this work is then to serve as a kind of an introduction to his thought. I want to offer an explanation for many of his key concepts as they are laid out particularly in the Technics and Time series. Only in the next part will I then discuss the political significance of these ideas and how Stiegler utilizes them in his later political work. All the while I also hope to bring forth the various thinkers Stiegler utilizes and show how he manages to creatively reinterpret them. Finally,...

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