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My Take
Bernard Stiegler, who died in 2020, is a philosopher whose biography is almost more arresting than his theory, and that's saying something. He spent years in prison for armed robbery and discovered philosophy inside, which is not the usual route to founding the Institut de recherche et d'innovation at the Pompidou Centre. His lifelong subject, how technology shapes what it means to be human, reads as urgently now as ever. Even when his books get dense, the trajectory from a cell to serious thinker pulls me in. A man who became a thinker behind bars sounds like fiction.
Overview
Bernard Stiegler (French: [bɛʁnaʁ stiɡlɛʁ]; 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also founder of the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis in 2005. In 2010, he established the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Bernard Stiegler
- Name (Japanese)
- ベルナール・スティグレール
- Reading
- べるなーる・すてぃぐれーる
- Born
- April 1, 1952 – August 5, 2020
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Dragon
- Origin
- Villebon-sur-Yvette, Seine-et-Oise, France
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- philosopher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Awards & achievements
- 2016 Officer of Arts and Letters
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Technics and Time | — | |
| Notable work | Aimer, s'aimer, nous aimer : du 11 septembre au 21 avril | — | |
| Notable work | Symbolic misery | — | |
| Notable work | Réenchanter le monde : la valeur esprit contre le populisme industriel | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.