Heidegger on Technology

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.

Autorentext

Aaron James Wendland is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Higher School of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford, and he is the co-editor of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (Routledge, 2013).

Christopher Merwin is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University. He is currently writing his dissertation on Heidegger's later concept of time.

Christos Hadjioannou is an Associate Tutor at Sussex University, where he recently completed his Ph.D. thesis entitled The Emergence of Mood in Heidegger's Phenomenology.

Inhalt

Introduction: Heidegger's Thinking Through Technology

Christopher Merwin, Aaron James Wendland, and Christos Hadjioannou

1. The Task of Thinking in a Technological Age

Mark A. Wrathall

2. Im-position: Heidegger's Analysis of the Essence of Modern Technology

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

3. Heidegger's Critique of Techno-science as a Critique of Husserl's Reductive Method

Christos Hadjioannou

4. The Challenge of Heidegger's Approach to Technology: A Phenomenological Reading

Steven Crowell

5. Letting Things Be for Themselves: Gelassenheit as Enabling Thinking

Tobias Keiling

6. The Question Concerning the Machine: Heidegger's Technology Notebooks in the 1940s-50s

Andrew J. Mitchell

7. Heidegger's Releasement from the Technological Will

Bret W. Davis

8. Heidegger's New Beginning: History, Technology, and National Socialism

Aaron James Wendland

9. Technology, Ontotheology, Education

Iain Thomson

10. Heidegger, Habermas, Freedom, and Technology

Julian Young

11. How Pertinent is Heidegger's Thinking for Deep Ecology?

Michael E. Zimmerman

12. Poetry and the Gods: From Gestell to Gelassenheit

Susanne Claxton

13. Letting Beings Be: An Ecofeminist Reading of Gestell, Gelassenheit, and Sustainability

Patricia Glazebrook

14. Machenshaft and the Audit Society: The Philosophy and Politics of the 'Accessibility of Everything to Everyone'

Denis McManus

15. Heidegger vs. Kuhn: Does Science Think?

Aaron James Wendland

16. Quantum Theory as Technology

Taylor Carman

17. Naturalizing Gestell?

Rafael Winkler