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Derrida and Technology: Life, Politics, and Religion

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Authors:
  1. Björn Sjöstrand

    1. Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Uniquely takes a comprehensive approach to Jacques Derrida as a philosopher of technology
  • Provides a deep understanding of the technical as a philosophical question
  • Situates current debates surrounding technology and globalization around academic philosophy

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Philosophy of Technology Tradition

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 15-50

  4. Derrida and the Phenomenology of Technology

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 51-66

  5. Technology and Time as Event

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 67-90

  6. Humanity’s Technicity

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 91-106

  7. Ethics and Technology

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 107-135

  8. Politics and Technology

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 137-157

  9. Religion and Technology

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 159-193

  10. Conclusion

    • Björn Sjöstrand
    Pages 195-200
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About this book

This book is the first monograph that takes a comprehensive approach to Jacques Derrida as a philosopher of technology. It refines and complements his mainstream image as a philosopher of language and deconstructionist of classical literary and philosophical texts. This volume outlines the key features of Derrida’s alternative philosophy of technology, a philosophy which Sjöstrand argues, avoids the problems associated with, on the one hand, a Heideggerian orientation, which completely separates thinking and technology and, on the other, an empirically oriented ”post-phenomenology” that can be said to be hegemonic within the field today.

Based on a sustained interpretation of Derrida, and a robust, coherent philosophy of technology, a phenomenology of technology is developed that, in a radical way, extends the concept of technology to cover the entire field of phenomenology. This places the technological not in opposition to humanity, but rather always already in close proximity to man and, consequently, to life, ethics, politics, democracy and religion. Strikingly, this important aspect of Derrida’s thinking is only rarely analyzed or discussed by his many exegetes. This text appeals to graduates and researchers working on Derrida, phenomenology, and the philosophy of technology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Björn Sjöstrand

About the author

Björn Sjöstrand studied philosophy at Södertörn University, Stockholm, from 2002 and obtained his PhD at Uppsala University in 2016. In his early career, he studied electronics at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg and obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering. He has a solid technical background with more than 30 years of experience in various leading positions within the telecommunications and information industry in Sweden.

As a phenomenologist, he is presently interested in the question of technology and its relation to the human and to society. He has previously published Ethics and Politics in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida (2008), “Derrida and the Phenomenology of Technology” in Fenomenologi, Teknik och Medialitet (2011) and “The Phenomenology of Technology: The Technology that Saves” in Modern Filosofi (2016). Since 2009 he is a member of The Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT)and The Nordic Society for Phenomenology (NoSP).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Derrida and Technology: Life, Politics, and Religion

  • Authors: Björn Sjöstrand

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83407-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83406-7Published: 06 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83409-8Published: 06 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83407-4Published: 05 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 200

  • Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology

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