Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology

✍ Scribed by Arne De Boever; Alex Murray; Jon Roffe; Ashley Woodward

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work to be published in English

This collection of essays, including one by Simondon himself, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem.

Complete with a contextualising introduction and a glossary of technical terms, it offers an entry point to this important thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy, philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political philosophy.

Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone world, having been of great importance in France for many years.

Key Features

• Includes a contextualising introduction and a glossary of technical terms
• Contributors include: Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick; Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, New Jersey; Anne Sauvagnargues, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon and Bernard Stiegler, Pompidou Centre, Paris