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This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger's most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heidegger's notion of modern technology. Heidegger's impressive work still hides many treasures and strange thoughts giving original insights into the rise of biotechnology, transgressions between art and technology and the writing of Western history. By way of surprising thought experiments, critical questioning, allusions and systematic conclusions, this book presents Heidegger's thoughts on technology in a way that not only shows his importance for philosophy and modern society, but also identifies his shortcomings and uses his original thoughts and concepts against him.
List of contents
Part I
The Essence of Modern Technology
Chapter 1
Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology
A Question about the Free Relationship
The Essence of Modern Technology Thought of as Enframing
The Limitations of Technology
Chapter 2
Modern Technology As The Offspring Of Enframing: The Reproduction Of Modern Technology
Under the Rule of Enframing
The Self-Movement of Physis
Phenomenology of Enframing
Chapter 3
Toward an Understanding of Essence
Heidegger's Concept of Essence
The Total Mobilization of Beings
A Matter of Time
Part II
Technology in the Context of Art
Chapter 4
"The Origin Of The Work Of Art"
"Out of the Dark Opening"
The Truth on the Work
The Truth in the Work
Chapter 5
The Truth of Technology
The Mystery of the Work of Art
Art in the Work of Technology
Dangerous Art
Part III
The Story Between Nature and Art
Chapter 6
The Genealogy of Modern Technology
Techne vs. Modern Technology
This History of Metaphysics
Two Approaches Critiquing Modernity
Chapter 7
Alternative Genealogies
The Characteristic of Beings
Biotechnology
Toward the Origin of Modern Technology
Chapter 8
Adjustment
A Timely Work of Art
"Where the Saving Power is, the Danger also Grows"
The Other Beginning
About the author
Roskilde University and the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Søren Riis
Roskilde University
Universitetsvej 1, byg 42. 1-22
4000 Roskilde
Denmark
(+45) 46742138
(+45) 30276432
Summary
This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger's most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heidegger's notion of modern technology.
