Heidegger And Contemporary Philosophy: Technology, Living, Society & Science

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This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger’s thought today. The chapters address the modern living conditions of intense social transformation intertwined with the continuous and rapid development of technologies that redefine the borders between nations and cultures. Technology globalizes markets, customs, the exchange of information, and economic flows but also – as Heidegger reminds us – revolutionizes the way we relate to bodies, to life, and to earth, by way of introducing both unprecedented opportunities and great dangers. Introduction Contents Contributors Part I: Technology The Age of the Totalitarian Domination of Technology 1 “Insight Into That Which Is” 2 The “Technical turn” 3 In the Shadow of Jünger (And Nietzsche) 4 The Totalitarianism of Technology Bibliography The Perfection of Gestell and the Last God. Heidegger’s Criticism of Techno-Nihilism 1 The Metaphysical Essence of Technology (Heidegger as Reader of Jünger) 2 “Only a god can save us” Bibliography Technology and the Ambiguity of Production 1 Technology and Poiesis 2 The Destruction of Metaphysical “Production” 3 The Ambiguity of Poiesis and Art as Middle Term 4 A Non-subjective and Cosmological Production Bibliography Heidegger and the Conception of Technology as Fate 1 Heidegger’s Indebtedness to Jünger 2 An Announced Apocalypse 3 Techne, Poiesis, Aletheia 4 The Ge-Stell as a Sending of Destiny 5 The Human Being: Technology’s Plaything 6 The Critique of the Anthropological-Instrumental Perspective 7 ‘Using of Means’ and ‘Revealings’ 8 Technology and Violence 9 Toward a Politics of Ordaining Bibliography Heidegger’s Works Other Works Cited Part II: Living Living, Being, Thinging. Remarks on the Fate of the Animal in Heidegger’s Thought 1 From Phenomenology to Ontology, or from Living to Being 2 Being as Living, or the Animal as a Living Being 3 From Being to Ereignis, or from Poverty in World to the Gathering of World Reference List and Bibliography Poetically Man Dies: Heidegger and the Limits of Man in Word and Death 1 The State of the Art: The Dying of the Human Being and the Perishing of the Animal Being in the Criticisms by Derrida and Figal 2 Poetry and Death: The Dwelling Proper to Man 3 Philosophy and Sciences: The Question of Death References From Mortals to Living Beings. A Matter of Responsibility Cited Works Between Life and Existence. Heidegger’s Aristotelianism and the Question of Animality 1 Introduction 2 Textual Confrontation: Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy (1924) 3 Continuity and Separation in Animal Life: The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics (1929–1930) 4 Recent Debates 5 Conclusion References From Fixing to Thinking: Martin Heidegger’s Contribution to Medical Cares 1 Introduction 2 Philosophy and Medicine in Dialogue 3 Heidegger’s Critique of Science and Biology 4 Meditative Thinking Approach to Mental Health 5 Healthcare and Medical Education: Thinking Not Fixing Bibliography Martin Heidegger’s Works Secondary Literature Websites Part III: Society Autopoiesis and Heteropoiesis in the Care of the Self. Foucaultian Perspectives on “Being and Time” and “Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy” 1 Heidegger Between Aristotle and Foucault 2 Foucaultian Perspectives – Pro and Contra – on Being and Time 3 A Step Back Towards Ethos: Heidegger’s 1924 Lecture on Aristotle 4 The Ethical Urphänomen of Heidegger’s Ontology Bibliography The Social Hermeneutics of Dasein 1 «Dasein in Heidegger is never hungry» 2 A Social Phenomenology 3 A Social Ontology 4 Conclusions Bibliography Politics and Territory. Remarks on Heidegger’s Political Philosophy 1 Toward an Ontology of Political Space 2 The German Question: Groundedness and Resoluteness as Belonging Criteria Bibliography Heidegger and the Black Notebooks. The Crisis of the Question of Being in the Black Notebooks Bibliography On the Hidden Roots of our Time. The Secret Thought of Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” 1 The Thirties/Forties: A Stratified Period in Heidegger’s Course 2 The Disillusion of National Socialism 3 Judaism – Christianity Bibliography Part IV: Science Between Physics and Theology: Heidegger, Philosopher of Science 1 The ‘Consubstantiality’ Between Philosophy and the Positive Sciences 2 Philosophy as an «Ontological Corrective» of Physics 3 Does Time Not ‘Exist’? Bibliography Tertium datur. Time as Meditation in Kant and Heidegger 1 Problem Statement: The Position of Thought Toward World 2 The Position of Thought Toward Being in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 3 The Mediation of Time 4 Heidegger’s Ecstatical Conception of Time Bibliography Index