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Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects

By Graham , Harman

Book information

Publisher
Open Court
Year
2011
ISBN
9780812697735, 0812697731
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
551 kB (564233 bytes)
Pages
343 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Object (Philosophy)

Description

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 between tool and broken tool is not m.

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