Gilbert Simondon

Gilbert Simondon ( born October 2, 1924 in Saint- Étienne, † February 7, 1989 in Palaiseau ) was a French philosopher.

Biography

Simondon 1944 began his studies at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne. He was, like his contemporary Michel Foucault, a student of Georges Canguilhem. In addition, he heard Maurice Merleau -Ponty and Martial Gueroult. In 1963 he was appointed professor of psychology at the Sorbonne.

Simondon exerted great influence on Gilles Deleuze, who considered him one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Despite its prominent advocate Simondon long remained international recognition fails.

Work

In his published dissertation in two parts, L' individuation à la lumière of the notions de forme et d'information (1964 and 1989 ), he tried all forms of biological, psychological and social individuation through the combination of information theory and Gestalt psychology as forms of a single phenomenon understand.

Simondon was also one of the first philosophers who recognized the significance of technology for philosophy. In You Mode d' Existence of objets Techniques ( 1958), he tries to bring together the technical development and biological evolution in a new understanding. His goal is to break through the epistemological limits of cybernetics and to arrive at a general theory of the machine.

As the central problems of cybernetics, as argued for example by Norbert Wiener, Simondon sees their fixation on the idea of ​​Automatens and thus an overemphasis on the importance of equilibria. The perfect machine, the environmental impact registered as disturbances of its systemic equilibrium, processes it, and thus returns to this equilibrium is merely a limiting case in which technological developments can approach for Simondon. A in this sense of Simondon " technologically deterministic " referred to as cybernetics is the historical development and deployment of specific technologies therefore not fair.

Simondon tries the history of certain technologies, so their invention, perfecting and networking, to grasp the key words of the specification and customization. In his writings, he aims at the development of a " direct examination of technicality by a genetic method". In this way Simondon's thought of the technology to the genetic ontology remains tied back, which he developed in his dissertation.

The theories Simondon currently find their echo in the works of the philosopher Bernard Stiegler and those of the sociologist Bruno Latour.

Publications

  • You mode d'existence des objets techniques. Aubier, Paris, 1989, ISBN 2-7007-1851-8.
  • L' individual et sa genèse physico- biologique. Jérôme Millon, Grenoble 1995, ISBN 2-84137-024-0.
  • L' individuation psychique et collective. Aubier, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7007-1890-4.
  • L' individuation à la lumière of the notions de forme et d'information. Millon, Grenoble, 2005, ISBN 2-84137-181-6.
  • L'invention dans les techniques. Seuil, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-02-056337-1.
  • Cours sur la perception. Editions de la Transparence, Chatou 2006, ISBN 2-35051-012-3.
  • Imagination et Invention. Editions de la Transparence, Chatou 2008, ISBN 978-2-35051-037-8.
  • Communication et information. Cours et Conférences. Editions de La Transparence, Chatou, 2010.

This has so far in German translation:

  • "The individual and its genesis. Introduction. " From the French by J. Kursell and A. Shepherd; in "Structure, figure, contour ," Blümle C. and A. Shepherd (ed.), diaphanes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03734-004-2.
  • " Additional comments regarding the consequences of Individuationsbegriffs. " From the French by Michael Cuntz, in: abundance - How distributed power to act. Ilka Becker, Michael Cuntz, Astrid Kusser (ed. ), Munich 2008, pp. 45-74.
  • Animals and humans. Two lectures. From the French by Michael Cuntz, initiated by Jean -Yves Chateau, diaphanes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03734-157-5.
  • "The technical setting. " From the French v. Michael Cuntz, in: The technological condition. Contributions to the description of the technical world. Erich Hoerl (ed.), Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978 - 3-518-29603-5.
  • The mode of existence of technical objects. From the French by Michael Cuntz, diaphanes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03734-195-7.

Secondary literature

  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy ( dir. ): Cahiers Simondon - Numéro 5, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2013.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy ( dir. ): Cahiers Simondon - Numéro 4, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2012.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy, " Simondon - A thinking of the art in dialogue with cybernetics. " From the French of Ksymena Wojtyczka, in: The technological condition. Contributions to the description of the technical world. Erich Hoerl (ed.), Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978 - 3-518-29603-5.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy ( dir. ): Cahiers Simondon - Numéro 3, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2011, 158 p.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy ( dir. ): Cahiers Simondon - Numéro 2, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2010, 154 p.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy ( dir. ): Cahiers Simondon - Numéro 1, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2009, 152 p.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy: Simondon ou l' Encyclopédisme génétique, Paris, PUF, 2008, 166 p.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy: Penser l' individuation. Simondon et la philosophie de la nature, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2005 ( préface de Jean- Claude Beaune), 256 p.
  • Jean -Hugues Barthélémy: Penser la connaissance et la technique après Simondon, Paris, L' Harmattan, 2005, 304 p.
  • Revue Philosophique: Gilbert Simondon, n ° 3/2006, Paris (PUF ), 2006.
  • Muriel Combes: Simondon. . Individu et collectivité, Paris (PUF ), 1999 (English: Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Trans Individual, translated by Thomas Lamarre, MIT Press, 2012)
  • Bibliothèque du Collège international de philosophie: Gilbert Simondon. Une pensée de l' individuation et de la technique, Paris, Albin Michel, 1994.
  • N.N.: Simondon. In: Annales de l'Institut de philosophie de l' Université libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, 2002.
  • Jacques Roux (ed.): Simondon. Une pensée opéra tive, Saint- Etienne ( PUST ), 2002.
  • Arne De Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe and Ashley Woodward (ed. ): Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press,, 2012.

References and Notes

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