Acting out
By: Bernard Stiegler ; translated by David Barison, Daniel Ross, and Patrick Crogan.
Contributors: Barison, David.; Ross, Daniel, 1970-; Crogan, Patrick.; Stiegler, Bernard.
Series: Meridian, crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780804758680; 9780804758697
Subjects: Philosophy, French -- 20th century; Individuation (Philosophy); Narcissism
Other titles: Aimer, s'aimer, nous aimer.
Work titles: Passer à l'acte.
Description: "Acting Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epictetus, Stiegler began to read, write, and discover his vocation, eventually studying philosophy in correspondence with Gerard Granel who was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, who was later Stiegler's teacher." "The second book, To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us, is a powerful distillation of Stiegler's analysis of the contemporary world. He maintains that a growing loss of a sense of individual and collective existence leads to a decreased ability to love oneself, and, by extension, others."--Jacket.
Notes: "How I Became a Philosopher was originally published in French in 2003 under the title Passer à l'acte; To love, to love me, to love us was originally published in French in 2003 under the title Aimer, s'aimer, nous aimer."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How I became a philosopher; title: To love, to love me, to love us.