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Inhaltsverzeichnis
acknowledgements
preface
Introduction
Part One: A Critical Theory of Technology
1. Criticizing Technology
2. Anders and Heidegger: Heidegger’s Authenticity and Günther Anders’ Neg-Anthropology
3. Günther Anders and Hannah Arendt: Rilke and Cherries, Politics and Love
4. Between the Lines: Benjamin’s Angels of History and Anders’ Apocalypse
5. Anders and Adorno: Genocide
6. Anders’ Capuchin, Virilio’s Chimeras, Agamben’s ‘Man Without Properties’
Part Two: Anders, Media, Music
7. Radio Ghosts
8. Being-in-Music
9. Transistor Radios and Media Überveillance
10. Pop Culture: Music Reviews, Radio Covers, and Copies
Part Three: Schizotopic Thought: Planetarism and Apocalypse Blindness
11. Political Media Theory, Hiroshima, and Nuclear Powerplants
12. ‘The Devil’s New Apartment’
bibliography
index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Babette Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, USA. She is author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science (1994) The Hallelujah Effect (2016)
Zusammenfassung
Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunther Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman condition which have become so central to current theory.
Babette Babich argues that Anders offers important resources on streaming digital media through his writings on radio, television and film and is, unusually, both a comprehensive and profound thinker. Anders' relationship with key philosophers like Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin and his thinking on Goethe, Nietzsche and Rilke is also explored with a focus on the deep impact he made on his peers. It reflects specifically on the intersection of Anders’ thought Heidegger and the Frankfurt school and how influential a figure he was on the landscape of 20th century philosophy. A compelling rehabilitation of a thinker with profound contemporary relevance.
Vorwort
The first introduction and exploration of the work of Gunther Anders and his philosophies of technology
Zusatztext
Günther Anders’s philosophy of technology, developed across seven decades, provides uniquely pragmatic resources with which to think the technological present. Babette Babich vividly captures and expansively surveys the potential of Anders’s vast body of work, which viscerally exposes the ongoing and accelerating transformation, production, augmentation, and devaluation of “the human”.
