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The gods and technology : a reading of Heidegger / Richard Rojcewicz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rojcewicz, Richard.
- Series:
- SUNY series in theology and continental thought.
- SUNY series in theology and continental thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An analysis of Heidegger's philosophy of technology.
- Contents:
- Intro
- The Gods and Technology
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Ancient Technology
- The four causes as obligations, as making ready the ground
- The so-called efficient cause in Aristotle
- Letting, active letting, letting all the way to the end
- Producing, bringing-forth, nature
- Manufacture and contemplation
- Disclosive looking
- Technology and truth
- The Greek concept of techne
- Ancient technological practice as poiesis
- 2. Modern Technology
- Ancient versus modern technology
- Modern technology as a challenging: The gear and thecapacitor
- Modern technology as an imposition
- Modern technology as a ravishment
- Modern technology as a disposing
- "Disposables"
- Ge-stell, the "all-encompassing imposition"
- The essence of modern technology as nothing technological
- Science as harbinger
- Causality
- modern physics
- The novelty of modern technology
- 3. The Danger inModern Technology
- Asking about and asking for
- Sent destiny, history, chronology
- Freedom
- Hastening
- Doom
- The danger
- The highest danger
- The occultation of poiesis
- That which might save
- The sense of essence
- Enduring
- Bestowal
- The essence as something bestowed
- Bestowal as what might save
- The mystery
- The constellation
- Transition to the question of art
- 4. Art
- (Metaphysical) aesthetics versus (ontological)philosophy of art
- Art as most properly poetry
- Art and the history of Being
- Art and technology
- Questioning
- 5. Detachment
- Contemplation
- Detachment (Gelassenheit)
- Openness to the mystery, autochthony, lasting human works
- Conclusion: phenomenology, improvisation on the piety in art
- Notes
- Cited Works of Heidegger
- Bibliography of Major Secondary Studies
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T.
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791482308
- 0791482308
- 9781423755807
- 1423755804
- OCLC:
- 64560507
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