The Decadence of Industrial Democracies

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

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