Ernst Jungers Philosophy of Technology - Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene

This book examines the work of Jünger and its effect on the development of Heidegger's philosophy of technology. It offers a unique treatment of Jünger's philosophy and his conception of the age of technology, in which both world and man appear in terms of their functionality and efficiency. It demonstrates Jünger's influence on Heidegger's conceptions of will, work and gestalt at the beginning of the 1930s. At the same time, Blok evaluates Heidegger's criticism of Jünger and provides a novel interpretation of the Jünger-Heidegger connection: that Jünger's work in fact testifies to a transformation of our relationship to language and conceptualizes the future in terms of the Anthropocene.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Age of Technicity and the Gestalt of the Worker
2. Heidegger’s Reception of Jünger: Work, Gestalt and Poetry
3. Language and the Poetics of the Anthropocene

About the author

Vincent Blok is associate professor in Business Ethics and Philosophy of Management, Technology & Innovation, Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He holds a PhD in philosophy of technology from Leiden University. His work has appeared in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Philosophy & Technology, Environmental Ethics and other journals. See www.vincentblok.nl for his current research.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent Blok, Vincent (Wageningen University Blok, Blok Vincent
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138737594
• ISBN: 978-1-138-73759-4
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Phenomenology and Existentialism