Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence / by Frank Schalow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schalow, Frank., Author.

Series:

Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 2215-1915 ; 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Phenomenology.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Philosophy of Technology.

Local Subjects:

Hermeneutics.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy of Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Summary:

This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of “addiction,” presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament. The book introduces phenomenological motifs, such as desire, embodiment, and temporality, to uncover the existential roots of addiction, and develops Martin Heidegger’s insights into technology to uncover the challenge of becoming a self within the impulsiveness and depersonalization of our digital age. By charting a new path of philosophical inquiry, the book allows a pervasive, cultural phenomenon, ordinarily reserved to psychology, to speak as a referendum about the danger which technology poses to us on a daily basis. In this regard, addiction ceases to be merely a clinical malady, and instead becomes a “signpost” to exposing a hidden danger posed by the assimilation of our culture within a technological framework.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Everydayness and the Norm of Addictive Practices

Chapter 3. The Phenomenon of the Body and the “Hook” of Addiction

Chapter 4. Self-Deception and Co-Dependency

Chapter 5. Technology and the Rise of the Artifice

Chapter 6. From Theology to Therapy: A Genealogical Approach

Chapter 7. In Search of a Discourse: The Path of Recovery

Chapter 8. From Excess to Economy: Taking Ownership.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-319-66942-7