Technology and Time—The Fault of Aesop: The Fault of Aesop

Author: Bernard Stiegler
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Starting from the inherent qualities of "imperfection" and "surrogacy," this book re-discusses the role and status of technology and time in human nature by interpreting the story of Prometheus and Epimetheus in Greek mythology, thereby establishing a new relationship between technology, time, and human nature. This book is an important work by the renowned French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The author synthesizes the theories of technological evolution represented by anthropologists, ethnologists, and prehistorians such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Leroi-Gourhan, as well as the existential phenomenology theory represented by Heidegger. Starting from the inherent qualities of "imperfection" and "surrogacy," the book re-discusses the role and status of technology and time in human nature through an explanation of the story of the brothers Prometheus and Epimetheus in Greek mythology, thereby establishing a new relationship between technology, time, and human nature.