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Book SynopsisJavier Cardoza-Kon is Lecturer in philosophy and communications at San Jose State University and California State University Monterey Bay, USA.
Trade ReviewUnlike many scholars who have written on Heidegger, Cardoza-Kon brings to his discussion a deep knowledge of the intricate and subtle connections between Heidegger’s philosophy and his politics. This book will put to rest any doubts that Heidegger’s critique of western metaphysics is related to his far-right politics.
-- Grant Havers, Professor of Philosophy and Political Studies, Trinity Western University, Canada
In
Heidegger’s Politics of Enframing: Technology and Responsibility Javier Cardoza-Kon examines the political and ethical dimensions of Martin Heidegger’s late period. Utilizing an unorthodox approach, Cardoza-Kon articulates a two-tiered political structure that underlies the late Heidegger's thoughts on technology and constitutes the possibility of ethical life in the face of technological saturation. -- Carlos A. Sanchez, Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University, USA
Javier Cardoza-Kon offers a clear, patient, and insightful account of the relation between Heidegger's politics and his philosophy. Cardoza-Kon's explanation of how concrete political action is shaped by certain metaphysical assumptions is particularly illuminating, and his lucid overview of Heidegger’s thought from
Being and Time to
The Question Concerning Technology will be helpful to readers who are approaching Heidegger’s overtly political writings (and Heidegger’s decision to join the Nazis) for the first time. Finally, Cardoza-Kon's application of Heidegger's philosophy to our current use of internet technology indicates the importance of Heidegger's thought in an increasingly digitized world. -- Aaron James Wendland, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Cultural Identity and Two Politics Chapter 2:
Polemos,
Auseinandersetzung, and Unconcealment Chapter 3: Auseiandersetzung, Nietzsche, and the Politics of Nihilism Chapter 4: Technology and We Late-Moderns Chapter 5: Self Irony and Emancipation: Concluding Perspectives on Technology and Politics Afterword
