Bernard Stiegler and the Philosophy of Education

This book is the first of its kind to critically examine the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler from the perspective of the philosophy of education. The editors of this book firmly believe that in the coming years Stiegler’s philosophy will assume increasing importance and influence in both digital studies and the philosophy of education as his thought is a prism through which to understand how we live and work, and a means to anticipate what the future may hold for us all in the time of the Anthropocene. They are of the view that Stiegler’s work will have a permanent impact on the intellectual terrain of the twenty-first century as his majestic conceptual architectonic will shape political, social and pedagogical debates in the coming decades. With this in mind, the contributors of this book take up his gauntlet to understand the risks and opportunities of the digital pharmakon and its impact on the educational milieu. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Obituary: Bernard Stiegler, philosopher of reorientation Joff P. N. Bradley Introduction: Stiegler as philosopher of education Joff P. N. Bradley and David Kennedy Part I: Retentions 1. The problem of now: Bernard Stiegler and the student as consumer Kristy Forrest 2. Questions concerning attention and Stiegler’s therapeutics Noel Fitzpatrick 3. Heidegger and Stiegler on failure and technology Ruth Irwin 4. Educational methods and cognitive modes: Focusing on the difference between Bernard Stiegler and N. Katherine Hayles Sunji Lee 5. Politics of digital learning—Thinking education with Bernard Stiegler Susanna Lindberg Part II: Protentions 6. Rhythmic nootechnics: Stiegler, Whitehead, and noetic life Conor Heaney 7. Stiegler’s ecological thought: The politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene Mark Featherstone 8. On the organology of utopia: Stiegler's contribution to the philosophy of education Joff P. N. Bradley and David Kennedy 9. What is in a child’s hand? Prosthesis in Bernard Stiegler: Some implications for a future philosophy of childhood Anna Kouppanou 10. Negen-u-topic becoming: On the reinvention of youth Joff P. N. Bradley 11. The university of the future: Stiegler after Derrida Constance L. Mui and Julien S. Murphy Afterword: From ‘Dare to Think!’ to ‘How Dare You!’ and back again Daniel Ross

Joff P. N. Bradley is Professor of English and Philosophy in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Joff is Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India, and Visiting Research Fellow at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. David Kennedy is Associate Professor in the College of Commerce at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.