States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century

by Bernard Stiegler

Book Overview

In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness. However, philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century abandoned the critique of political economy, and poststructuralism left its heirs helpless and disarmed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745664946
• ISBN13: 9780745664941
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"