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Heidegger's confrontation with modernity [electronic resource] : technology, politics, and art / Michael E. Zimmerman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Indiana series in the philosophy of technologyPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c1990.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 306 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780253114686
  • 0253114683
  • 0585105316
  • 9780585105314
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heidegger's confrontation with modernity.DDC classification:
  • 193 20
LOC classification:
  • B3279.H49 Z552 1990eb
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Contents:
1. Germany's confrontation with modernity -- 2. Political aspects of Heidegger's early critique of modern technology -- 3. Heidegger, national socialism, and modern technology -- 4. J�unger and the Gestalt of the worker -- 5. Heidegger's appropriation of J�unger's thought, 1933-34 -- 6. J�unger's thought in Heidegger's mature concept of technology -- 7. National socialism, Nietzsche, and the work of art -- 8. H�olderlin and the saving power of art -- 9. Equipment, work, world, and being -- 10. Being and Time : penultimate stage of productionist metaphysics? -- 12. Production cycles of the "laboring animal" : a manifestation of the will to will -- 13. How modern technology transforms the everyday world-and points to a new one -- 14. Authentic production : Techne as the art of ontological disclosure -- Conclusion : Critical reflections on Heidegger's concept of modern technology.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Germany's confrontation with modernity -- 2. Political aspects of Heidegger's early critique of modern technology -- 3. Heidegger, national socialism, and modern technology -- 4. J�unger and the Gestalt of the worker -- 5. Heidegger's appropriation of J�unger's thought, 1933-34 -- 6. J�unger's thought in Heidegger's mature concept of technology -- 7. National socialism, Nietzsche, and the work of art -- 8. H�olderlin and the saving power of art -- 9. Equipment, work, world, and being -- 10. Being and Time : penultimate stage of productionist metaphysics? -- 12. Production cycles of the "laboring animal" : a manifestation of the will to will -- 13. How modern technology transforms the everyday world-and points to a new one -- 14. Authentic production : Techne as the art of ontological disclosure -- Conclusion : Critical reflections on Heidegger's concept of modern technology.

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