Unframing Martin Heidegger’s Understanding of Technology

On the Essential Connection between Technology, Art, and History

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Unframing Martin Heidegger’s Understanding of Technology

On the Essential Connection between Technology, Art, and History

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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.

Table 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

Product details

Published 15 Aug 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 276
ISBN 9781498567664
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 236 x 161 mm
Series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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