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Book SynopsisThis book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger's most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heidegger's notion of modern technology. Heidegger's impressive work still hides many treasures and strange thoughts giving original insights into the rise of biotechnology, transgressions between art and technology and the writing of Western history. By way of surprising thought experiments, critical questioning, allusions and systematic conclusions, this book presents Heidegger's thoughts on technology in a way that not only shows his importance for philosophy and modern society, but also identifies his shortcomings and uses his original thoughts and concepts against him.
Trade ReviewThe Danish philosopher Søren Riis is one of the authorities I trust most when it comes to Heidegger. He has a rare combination of scholarly mastery of Heidegger's texts and up-to-date awareness of the latest trends in the philosophy of technology. His respect for the reader's intelligence also makes reading his works an unusually pleasant experience. I am delighted to see this work finally being published in English. -- Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture
A faithful, painstaking and subversive many-worlds rereading of Heidegger. It might be Heidegger’s ‘supreme danger,’ but perhaps enframing is not so bad after all. -- Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter
Table of ContentsPart I The Essence of Modern Technology Chapter 1 Martin Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology A Question about the Free Relationship The Essence of Modern Technology Thought of as Enframing The Limitations of Technology Chapter 2 Modern Technology As The Offspring Of Enframing: The Reproduction Of Modern Technology Under the Rule of Enframing The Self-Movement of Physis Phenomenology of Enframing Chapter 3 Toward an Understanding of Essence Heidegger’s Concept of Essence The Total Mobilization of Beings A Matter of Time Part II Technology in the Context of Art Chapter 4 “The Origin Of The Work Of Art” “Out of the Dark Opening” The Truth on the Work The Truth in the Work Chapter 5 The Truth of Technology The Mystery of the Work of Art Art in the Work of Technology Dangerous Art Part III The Story Between Nature and Art Chapter 6 The Genealogy of Modern Technology Techne vs. Modern Technology This History of Metaphysics Two Approaches Critiquing Modernity Chapter 7 Alternative Genealogies The Characteristic of Beings Biotechnology Toward the Origin of Modern Technology Chapter 8 Adjustment A Timely Work of Art “Where the Saving Power is, the Danger also Grows” The Other Beginning
