Taking Care of Youth and the Generations

Bernard Stiegler heads the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris and is co-founder of the political group Ars Industrialis. Stanford University Press recently published his Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation (2008), and Acting Out (2008).

"Stiegler puts forward a compelling account of our dire situation in the West at the beginning of the twenty-first century and uncompromisingly insists on the need to embrace the difficult task of reclaiming the ideals of the critical Humanities while refusing to fall in the trap of demonizing technology."—Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "A hugely prolific writer, for more than fifteen years philosopher Bernard Stiegler has been seeking both to articulate existence itself, and to ameliorate its contemporary woes. In what is a vast undertaking, Stiegler moves from the originary emergence of humanity to the safeguarding of its future by way of multi-volume analyses that range widely between and across technology, political economy, art, palaeontology, television, democracy and industrial and hyperindustrial societies. Focusing on education and the changing role of the school in contemporary Western societies, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations continues this project, while at the same time going some way to explain the sense of urgency which characterizes much of Stiegler's previous writing."—Richard Iveson, Parallax "In an era influenced by the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing acceptance of AI-based educational technologies, the discussions in this book will help scholars in the fields of educational theory, media, and the philosophy of technology, as well as educators and policymakers, to avoid too hasty an embrace of these technologies. Instead, it urges them to question education in its true sense, within the horizon of care for oneself and others."—Ali Vahdati Daneshmand, Educational Review