What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology

by Bernard Stiegler

Book Overview

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val rywrote of a 'crisis of spirit', brought about by theinstrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordinationof culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearlythat that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. Theeconomy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-termgain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertisingtechnologies make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745662714
• ISBN13: 9780745662718
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"