Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Despair and the Impotence of the Rational

II. The Antigone Complex

III. Spiritual Misery and Reasons for Hope

IV. The Disaffected Individual in the Process of Psychic and Collective Disindividuation

V. Hope and Politics

About the Author

Bernard Stiegler is director of cultural development at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Reviews

"Stiegler is, as usual, several steps ahead of everyone else. Inthis book he dives into the Dantesque zones of today shyper-industrial last man to propose the spaces where futures mightbe re-articulated. Where others recycle past masters or promote anunconvincing mantra of a 'new politics', Stiegler does battle inthe twilight zones of a terrestrial civilization entering itsafterlife. He is the discrete heir of Nietzsche, Sartre, andDerrida today - precisely by his distance from each." Tom Cohen, State University of New York at Albany