The Decadence of Industrial Democracies: Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 1 is a book by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne. In addition, he is Director of the , founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, , and founder in 2010 of the philosophy school,...

. The French original, Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 1, La décadence des démocraties industrielles, was published by Galilée in 2004. The English translation by Daniel Ross and Suzanne Arnold was published by Polity Press in 2011. It is the first volume of a three-volume series; the second and third volumes were published in French in 2006.

The book is divided into four chapters:

• 1. Decadence (And the Obligations it Creates for Us)
• 2. Belief and Politics in the Capitalist Age
• 3. The Otium of the People
• 4. Wanting to Believe (In the Hands of the Intellect)

Secondary literature

• Daniel Ross, The Cinematic Condition of the Politico-Philosophical Future.
• Daniel Ross, Politics and Aesthetics, or, Transformations of Aristotle in Bernard Stiegler.