"Acting Out " is the first appearance in English of two short books
published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In "How I Became a
Philosopher," he outlines his transformation during a five-year
period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had
been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in
phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epictetus,
Stiegler began to read, write, and discover his vocation,
eventually studying philosophy in correspondence with Gerard Granel
who was an important influence on a number of French philosophers,
including Jacques Derrida, who was later Stiegler's teacher.
The second book, "To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us," is a powerful
distillation of Stiegler's analysis of the contemporary world. He
maintains that a growing loss of a sense of individual and
collective existence leads to a decreased ability to love oneself,
and, by extension, others. This predicament is viewed through a
tragic event: in 2002, in Nanterre, France, Richard Durn, a local
activist, stormed the city's town hall, shooting and killing eight
people. Durn committed suicide the following day. The later
publication of Durn's his journal revealed a man struggling with
the feeling that he did not exist, for which he tried to compensate
by committing an atrocity. For Stiegler, this exemplifies how love
of self becomes pathological: a "me" assassinates an "us" with
which it cannot identify.
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