Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art

by Michael E. Zimmerman

Overview

"Writing in a lively and refreshingly clear American English,
Zimmerman provides an uncompromisingly honest and judicious account... of
Heidegger's views on technology and his involvement with National Socialism.... One
of the most important books on Heidegger in recent years." -- John D.
Caputo

"... superb... " -- Thomas Sheehan, The New York
Review of Books

"... thorough and complex... " --
Choice

"... excellent guide to Heidegger as
eco-philosopher." -- Radical Philosophy

"... engrossing,
rich in substance... makes clear Heidegger's importance for the issue of technology,
ethics, and politics." -- Religious Studies Review

The
relation between Martin Heidegger's understanding of technology and his affiliation
with and conception of National Socialism is the leading idea of this fascinating
and revealing book. Zimmerman shows that the key to the relation between Heidegger's
philosophy and his politics was his concern with the nature of working and
production.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253114686
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	05/22/1990
Series:	Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	607 KB

Table of Contents

Editor's
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of
Abbreviations

Division One Heidegger and the Politics of
Productionist Metaphysics: The Longing for a New World of
Work

Chapter 1: Germany's Confrontation with
Modernity
Chapter 2: Political Aspects of Heidegger's Early Critique of
Modern Technology
Chapter 3: Heidegger, National Socialism, and Modern
Technology
Chapter 4: Junger and the Gestalt of the Worker
Chapter
5: Heidegger's Appropriation of Junger's Thought, 1933-34
Chapter 6:
Junger's Thought in Heidegger's Mature Concept of Technology
Chapter 7:
National Socialism, Nietzsche, and the Work of Art
Chapter 8: Holderlin and
the Saving Power of Art

Divison Two Heidegger's Critique of
Productionist Metaphysics

Chapter 9: Equipment, Work, World, and
Being
Chapter 10: Being and Time: Penultimate Stage of Productionist
Metaphysics?
Chapter 11: The History of Productionist
Metaphysics
Chapter 12: Production Cycles of the "Laboring
Animal": A Manifestation of the Will to Will
Chapter 13: How Modern
Technology Transforms the Everyday World -- and Points to a New One
Chapter
14: Authentic Production: Techne as the Art of Ontological
Disclosure
Conclusion: Critical Reflections on Heidegger's Concept of
Modern Technology

Notes
Index