Kant and Technics: From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Opus Postumum

Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, and Bernard Stiegler each argued in their own way that, ever since its inception in ancient Greece, western philosophy is incapable of thinking technics, which reaches its clearest expression in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.According to Heidegger, Kant articulated the essence of modern technics as enframing (Gestell) without understanding the nature of his own insight, while Simondon claimed that transcendental philosophy is structurally incapable of thinking technics as its answer to the question of technics either comes too early (a priori) or too later (a posteriori).Stiegler synthesized both positions in his claim that Kant was incapable of acknowledging the technical constitution of his own consciousness.All three thinkers thus argue, in one way or another, that Kant was essentially incapable of seeing, understanding, let alone thinking, technics.The intention of this book is two-fold. On the one hand, it argues that, despite Heidegger, Simon