What Makes Life Worth Living - On Pharmacology - On Pharmacology

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Stiegler is Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His many books in English include Technics and Time , For a New Critique of Political Economy , The Decadence of Industrial Democracies and Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals . Klappentext Originally published in French as Ce qui fait que la vie vaut la peine d'ãetre vâecue in 2010. Zusammenfassung In the aftermath of the First World War! the poet Paul Valery wrote of a crisis of spirit ! brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind! or spirit! continues to fall. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements viii Introduction: A Continent on the Move 1 1 Myriad Challenges and Opportunities 5 2 A Demographic Dividend or Just More People? 21 3 Tropical Dilemmas: Disease, Water, and More 35 4 Educating Future Generations 55 5 To War Rather than to Prosper 69 6 Accountability and the Wages of Corrupt Behavior 91 7 The Infrastructural Imperative 116 8 Harnessing Mobile Telephone Capabilities 134 9 China Drives Growth 151 10 Strengthening Governance 173 11 Creating Responsible Leadership 189 Notes 216 Select Bibliography 244 Index 252

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• Autori: B Stiegler, Bernard Stiegler, Bernard (Bernard Steigler: Centre Georges-Pompidou) Stiegler, Stiegler Bernard
• Con la collaborazione di: Daniel Ross (Traduzione), Ross Daniel (Traduzione)
• Editore: Polity Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.05.2013
• EAN: 9780745662701
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-6270-1
• Pagine: 200
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, Social, group or collective psychology, Material Culture, Political science and theory