French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, author of La Technique et le Temps, paid a visit to the Yilin Press, a Phoenix Publishing & Media Inc. subsidiary in Nanjing, where he was given a tour of the book room and a brief description of Yilin's history by Gu Aibin, president of the publisher.

Stiegler spoke of Yilin's effort to spread the literature, culture, and thought of France, and of the large number of its literary works. He also delivered a lecture to students of Nanjing University on the complex relations between technology and people in this high-tech era.

Stiegler is one of the most active figures in the field of culture and art, and a leading figure in "technology philosophy". He is a friend and pupil of Jacques Derrida, the master of deconstruction.

His work covers technology, the media, and art, and goes far beyond "continental philosophy" as practised in the past. He examines the thought of Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl, Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Herbert Marcuse and Jean-François Lyotard and has many theories on new technology, new media, modern agriculture, modern industry, and new art, which are innovative and radical. His credo is "technologies are people".

The La Technique et le Temps, written in cooperation with Derrida, covers all these ideas and the cultural phenomena of today. It is regarded as one of the major philosophical works in French in the late 20th century. Many universities in China, including Peking University and Nanjing University, have the book on their list of required reading.

It took Yilin Press more than 10 years of translation and editing to publish La Technique et le Temps as a three-volume set in 2012.