Sublime

The great ambition of modern societies has been to institute a comprehensive reversal of the equation, to strip away both inherited privilege and inherited under-privilege in order to make rank dependent on individual achievement – which has primarily come to mean financial achievement. Status now rarely depends on an unchangeable identity handed

general weakening of being reopens the philosophical debate on the end of metaphysics, and provides the basis for a critical evaluation of the forms in which the rebirth of the sacred appears in our time.

Le rapport complexe que Stiegler entretient avec la pensée de Marx nous fournit deux indices importants sur sa conception et sa pratique plus générale de la philosophie. Tout d’abord, si « la question de la philosophie est d’abord celle de l’action », c’est que, selon Stiegler, toute philosophie comporte une « dimension existentielle […] sans

whenever a spiritual revelation is enshrined in an institution invented to carry its meaning through time, it is easy to understand how its guardians can become overprotective of the treasure they are responsible for, especially if their access to the original vision is theoretical rather than experiential, something they read about, rather than