Being and Technology A Study in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
The present wntmg attempts a clarification of the questIon bearing on technology and of its "Essence" in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In view of this, our initial task will consist in examining the origins of modern technology, which Heidegger desc
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PHAENOMENOLOGICA COLLECTION FONDEE PAR H.L. VAN BREDA ET PUBLIEE SOUS LE PATRON AGE DES CENTRES D' ARCHIVES-HUSSERL
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JOHN LOSCERBO
Being and Technology A STUDY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Comite de redaction de la collection: President: S. IJsseling (Louvain); Membres: M. Farber (Buffalo). E. Finkt (Fribourg en Brisgau), L. Landgrebe (Cologne). W. Marx (Fribourg en Brisgau). J.N. Mohanty (New York). P. Ricoeur (Paris), E. Stroker (Cologne), J. Taminiaux (Louvain), K.H. Volkmann-Schluck (Cologne); Secretaire: J. Tam i n ia ux.
JOHN LOSCERBO
Being and Technology A STUDY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER
1981
MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS THE HAGUE / BOSTON / LONDON
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
IX
Abbreviations
XI
PART ONE: PREPARATION FOR THE QUESTION CONCERNING MODERN TECHNOLOGY
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Beginnings: nXV1J and the Origin of Modern Technology A. The Primordial Notion of CPV(J/(; B. CPr5ali; and A6yo~ (Heraclitus and Parmenides) 1. Heraclitus and the A6yo~ 10 2. Parmenides 13 C. The Notion of nXv1J (Sophocles' Chorus) 1. Stage One 17 2. Stage Two 19 3. Stage Three 20 D. The Notion of nXV1J as Responsive "Wissen" The Platonic '[(jerx and '[(jelv A. The Platonic '[(jerx: "Affinity" and "Distance" B. A More Appropriate Interpretation of the Relationship '[(jerx- '[be,V C. The "Primacy of Beings" ("Vorrang des Seienden") Descartes: The "Beginning" of Modern Technology A. The Notion of "Reality" B. The Second Determination of the Notion of Reality C. The Cartesian Task 1. Preliminary 62 2. The Execution of the Task 66
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Nietzsche and the "Consummation" of Metaphysics A. First Approximation to the Notion of the Will to Power B. The Will to Power as the Most Radical Subjectivity C. The Will to Power and the Eternal Return of the Same D. The "Consummation" and the "End" of Metaphysics
PART Two: FIRST ApPROACH TOWARD THE QUESTION OF THE ESSENCE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY I.
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Remarks concerning Some Earlier Texts A. A Text from Nietzsche II (pp. 20-29) B. "Seinsverlassenheit und Irrnis" Texts from "Wozu Dichter" A. The Will (der Wille) and Human Willing (Wollen) B. Human Willing C. The "Danger" and the
