Heidegger on Technology

Heidegger on Technology
Author: Aaron James Wendland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317200705

This collection offers the first comprehensive and definitive account of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of technology. It does so through a detailed analysis of canonical texts and recently published primary sources on two crucial concepts in Heidegger’s later thought: Gelassenheit and Gestell. Gelassenheit, translated as ‘releasement’, and Gestell, often translated as ‘enframing’, stand as opposing ideas in Heidegger’s work whereby the meditative thinking of Gelassenheit counters the dangers of our technological framing of the world in Gestell. After opening with a scholarly overview of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology as a whole, this volume focuses on important Heideggerian critiques of science, technology, and modern industrialized society as well as Heidegger’s belief that transformations in our thought processes enable us to resist the restrictive domain of modern techno-scientific practice. Key themes discussed in this collection include: the history, development, and defining features of modern technology; the relationship between scientific theories and their technological instantiations; the nature of human agency and the essence of education in the age of technology; and the ethical, political, and environmental impact of our current techno-scientific customs. This volume also addresses the connection between Heidegger’s critique of technology and his involvement with the Nazis. Finally, and with contributions from a number of renowned Heidegger scholars, the original essays in this collection will be of great interest to students of Philosophy, Technology Studies, the History of Science, Critical Theory, Environmental Studies, Education, Sociology, and Political Theory.

Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy

Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy
Author: Carmine Di Martino
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-03-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030565661

This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger’s thought today. The chapters address the modern living conditions of intense social transformation intertwined with the continuous and rapid development of technologies that redefine the borders between nations and cultures. Technology globalizes markets, customs, the exchange of information, and economic flows but also – as Heidegger reminds us – revolutionizes the way we relate to bodies, to life, and to earth, by way of introducing both unprecedented opportunities and great dangers.

Heidegger and the Earth

Heidegger and the Earth
Author: Ladelle McWhorter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0802099882

In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary ecological issues through the medium of Heidegger's thought.

Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment

Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment
Author: David M. Kaplan
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262533162

Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology. Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent paths despite their common interest in examining human modification of the natural world. Yet philosophers from each field have a lot to contribute to the other. Environmental issues inevitably involve technologies, and technologies inevitably have environmental impacts. In this book, prominent scholars from both fields illuminate the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology, offering the beginnings of a rich new hybrid discourse. All the contributors share the intuition that technology and the environment overlap in ways that are relevant in both philosophical and practical terms. They consider such issues as the limits of technological interventions in the natural world, whether a concern for the environment can be designed into things, how consumerism relates us to artifacts and environments, and how food and animal agriculture raise questions about both culture and nature. They discuss, among other topics, the pessimism and dystopianism shared by environmentalists, environmental philosophers, and philosophers of technology; the ethics of geoengineering and climate change; the biological analogy at the heart of industrial ecology; green products and sustainable design; and agriculture as a bridge between technology and the environment. Contributors Braden Allenby, Raymond Anthony, Philip Brey, J. Baird Callicott, Brett Clark, Wyatt Galusky, Ryan Gunderson, Benjamin Hale, Clare Heyward, Don Idhe, Mark Sagoff, Julian Savulescu, Paul B. Thompson, Ibo van de Poel, Zhang Wei, Kyle Powys Whyte

Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology

Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology
Author: Vincent Blok
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351733621

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.

The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays

The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1982-01-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0061319694

"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume--intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader--call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking.... "Heidegger is not a 'primitive' or a 'romanitic.' He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens and responsibilities of contemporary life into serenity, either through the re-creating of some idyllic past or through the exalting of some simple experience. Finally, Heidegger is not a foe of technology and science. He neither disdains nor rejects them as though they were only destructive of human life. "The roots of Heidegger's hinking lie deep in the Western philosophical tradition. Yet that thinking is unique in many of its aspects, in its language, and in its leterary expression. In the development of this thought Heidegger has been taught chiefly by the Greeks, by German idealism, by phenomenology, and by the scholastic theological tradition. In him these and other elements have been fused by his genius of sensitivity and intellect into a very individual philosophical expression." --William Lovitt, from the Introduction

Heidegger and the Environment

Heidegger and the Environment
Author: Casey Rentmeester
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783482346

In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western world’s relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them. The onset of anthropogenic climate change and the increasing threats of resource depletions are the most obvious signs of an environmental crisis. This book attempts to examine the metaphysical underpinnings of our current environmental crisis, thereby viewing it from a philosophical perspective. Using Martin Heidegger’s writings on the history of being as its lynchpin, it examines how humans have come to view nature as a giant array of mere resources to be maximally exploited. Following Heidegger, Casey Rentmeester argues that this understanding of nature is rooted in the understanding of what it means to be that came about in ancient Greece. Rentmeester then utilizes elements of Heidegger’s post-metaphysical later philosophy and aspects of early philosophical Daoism to create an alternative way to think about the relation between humans and nature that is environmentally sustainable.

Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts

Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts
Author: A. Lack
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137487453

Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia.

Heidegger and Marcuse

Heidegger and Marcuse
Author: Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780415941778

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inhabiting the Earth

Inhabiting the Earth
Author: Bruce V. Foltz
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This work undertakes an analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philosophy. It looks at the status of nature and related concepts such as earth in his thought.