Heidegger: The Luddite?
Contrary to a common misconception Heidegger’s critique of technology is not an exercise in cultural pessimism. Nor is he a banal technophobe as some have argued. Amongst others Mitchell, Dreyfus (2009) and Davis (2007) have recently argued against the st
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Heidegger on Death and Being An Answer to the Seinsfrage
Heidegger on Death and Being
Johannes Achill Niederhauser
Heidegger on Death and Being An Answer to the Seinsfrage
Johannes Achill Niederhauser Department of Philosophy Birkbeck College University of London London, UK
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To my parents. Whose ways of being have released and sheltered mine.
Acknowledgements
The present book is the result of a journey that began—if a date can be given—during my days as a degree student of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Bolzano. There I came in touch with the thought of Martin Heidegger thanks to Ivo De Gennaro who teaches philosophy at the Free University of Bolzano. But it was not Heidegger the man I was interested in. I was struck by the question of existence, the question of being, the problem of death, and the problem of nihilism. It just so happened that Heidegger is a philosopher who thinks after those questions in a most profound way. I remain grateful to Ivo De Gennaro’s sustained support and inspiration to think that he has given me for the better of 10 years now. While at Bolzano, I took a detour and studied for some time at the University of Washington in Seattle. Thanks to a generous scholarship from the University of Washington and the Italian Government, I was able to spend some time in the Pacific Northwest. In Seattle, I took a course on Kierkegaard taught by Jan Sjavik. I am grateful to him for having introduced me to the thoughts of Kierkegaard, his critique of modernity. Before I began my
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