Towards a Hermeneutics of the Technological World (Athens 2010)

Towards a Hermeneutics of the Technological World: From Heidegger

to Contemporary Technoscience

(Athens 2010)



CONTENTS

Acknowledgements p.13

Introduction p. 15

 

PART ONE

I. HEIDEGGER AND THE CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY  p. 31

1. Phenomenology of technology as the “interface” between philosophy of science and philosophy of technology p. 35

2.Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology: the onto-historical priority of modern technology over modern science p. 42

3. Modern technology as a hermeneutic phenomenon: towards a “material hermeneutics” (Don Ihde) p. 49

II. PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY:

THE HISTORICAL DIMENSION   p. 56

1.Ernst Kapp and Friedrich Dessauer: the beginnings of the philosophy of technology p. 56

2. Oswald Spengler: modern technology as a historical destiny   p. 56

3. Ernst Jünger: modern technology as the “total mobilization of life”   p. 76

4. Edmund Husserl: the crisis of European sciences as “technicization”   p. 83

5. Jan Patočka: the “unthinkable” of Edmund Husserl’s crisis   p. 100

III. MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S HERMENEUTICS OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY AS A CRITIQUE OF CONTEMPORARY TECHNOSCIENCE   p. 111

1. What is “technoscience”?   p. 111

2. Martin Heidegger on technoscience p. 117

3. Contemporary philosophy of technology between determinism and constructivism   p. 136

4. Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutics of technology beyond technological determinism and constructivism   p. 150

PART TWO

I. THE QUESTION OF TECHNOLOGY FROM THE EARLY HERMENEUTICS OF FACTICITY TO BEING AND TIME AND BEYOND   p. 167

1. A hermeneutics of technology in Being and Time?  p. 167

2. The ontology of presence-at-hand in Being and Time (I): the pragmatist dimension  p. 184

3. The ontology of presence-at-hand in Being and Time (II): the realist dimension   p. 199

4. The ontology of presence-at-hand in Being and Time (III): the historical dimension  p. 213

II. THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY ON THE HISTORY OF WESTERN METAPHYSICS   p. 222

1. Greek techne and modern technology   p. 222

2. Roman imperium and Christian creatio p. 235

3. From Descartes to Nietzsche: “will to truth” as will to power  p. 248

a. Descartes: subjectivity and representation  p. 248

b. Leibniz: perceptio and appetitus p. 256

c. From Kant to Hegel: the philosophy of German Idealism as a metaphysics of the will    p. 260

4. Nietzsche: the completion of Western metaphysics in modern technology  p. 271

a. Will to power as “will to will”   p. 271

b. The eternal return of the same as the metaphysical possibility of modern machine   284

c. The overman as “homo laborans”  p. 289

d. Authentic nihilism, inauthentic nihilism, and technology   p. 294

PART THREE

I. MODERN TECHNOLOGY AS THE ESSENTIAL DENIAL OF HUMAN FINITUDE   p. 301

1. The overman as the “form of the worker”: Nietzsche and Jünger   p. 301

2. “Machination” and “lived experience” at the end of metaphysics   p. 312

3. Being-towards-death, finitude, technology    p. 325

II. THE RECOVERY OF HUMAN FINITUDE AS “RELEASEMENT TO THINGS”   p. 352

1. “World” and ‘thing”: the “fourfold”    p. 352

2. “Framing” and “standing reserve”: the destruction of the originary unity of “world” and “thing” by modern technology  p. 358

3. Technological domination and “releasement to things”: the “danger” and the “turn”   p. 372

Afterword     p. 380

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

a. Works by Martin Heidegger  p. 395

b. Other works  p. 397

c. Secondary bibliography  p. 401

INDEX OF CONCEPTS   p. 427

INDEX OF NAMES   p. 437