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The gods and technology : a reading of Heidegger / Richard Rojcewicz.

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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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