Tool-being : Heidegger and the metaphyics of objects / Graham Harman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harman, Graham, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Object (Philosophy).

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tool-Being offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger's famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger's legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy.Every reader of Being and Time is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and presence-at-hand (Vorhandenheit), but commentators usually follow Heidegger's wishes in giving this distinction a limited scope, as if it applied only to tools in a narrow sense. Graham Harman contests Heidegger's own interpretation of tool-being, arguing that the opposition b

Contents:

Title Page; Dedication; Note to the Reader; Introduction; Chapter One - The Tool and Its Reversal; 1. The Invisible Realm; 2. Reference; 3. Equipment Is Global; 4. Reversal: Broken Tools; 5. Space; 6. Theory; 7. The As-Structure; 8. A Second Axis; 9. The Duel in Appearance; Chapter Two - Between Being and Time; 10. Concerning Poiesis, Praxis; 11. Not Pragmatism; 12. The Being in Phenomena; 13. The Threefold; 14. Truth and its Double; 15. The Event; 16. Language and the Thing; 17. Technology; 18. The Fourfold; 19. The Specter of Realism

Chapter Three - Elements of an Object-Oriented Philosophy20. Prehension; 21. Contributions of Levinas; 22. Contributions of Zubiri; 23. Refining the Problem; 24. Classical Milestones; 25. Two Paradoxes; 26. Tools in a Vacuum; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-322) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28562-2

9786613285621

0-8126-9773-1

OCLC:

751694935