Technics of Existence: Sartre, Foucault and Stiegler

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Introduction
	Philosophy of technology today
	Ethics of technology and the end of man
	The limits of technology, innovation and applied ethics
	Technics of existence: Chapter by chapter
	Further considerations
Part I: Philosophers of the Human
	Chapter 1: The French touch
		Two traditions of thought
		French philosophy of technology
		Stiegler’s work
			(1) The techno-anthropological phase
			(2) The libidinal phase
			(3) The pharmacological phase
			(4) The politico-experimental phase
		Stiegler’s method
	Chapter 2: The problem of the ‘Human’
		Technology and subjective life
		The return of the human
	Chapter 3: The loss of the Feeling of Existing
		Taking care
		Stiegler and Sartre: A politics of consciousness
		Stiegler and Foucault: Self-reflexivity, a question of education
Part II: Technics of the Self
	Chapter 1: Sartre: Rediscovering the Free Subject
		The Transcendence of the Ego and the freedom of consciousness
		Being and Nothingness: The ego in-the-world
		Existentialism is a Humanism: The horizon of choice
		The project of existence
		Existential psychoanalysis
		A technique of existence
		Words: Language as first technique
		Sartre’s success
	Chapter 2: Foucault: A History of the Subject
		From power to subjectivity
		Self-knowledge, truth and power
		Panopticism and resistance
		The augmented self
		The possibility of change
	Chapter 3: Stiegler: A Philosophy of the Amateur
		The technical base of human existence
		The lack of origin and the commitment to be
		The destruction of thought: From biopower to psychopower
		On consumption
		On the relevance of the amateur
		Art-lover and activitist
		Production and consumption: A new form of class struggle
		The amateur vs the hustler
		Towards an economy of contribution
		The limits of the economy of contribution
		What next?
Part III: Technology and the Human
	Chapter 1: Ethics of Technology and the Subject
		The ethics of technology
		The Challenger and the return of the subject in ethics of technology
	Chapter 2: Beyond the Mirror
		The second self
	Chapter 3: This is all the fault of the medium!
		A brief history of the internet
		There are no tools of freedom
		Erase to protect
		Purge the medium: Another form of moral disinvestment
Conclusion: The great unspoken
	The Saville Inquiry: Where did we fail?
	Be better at technologies
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