Heidegger on Technology by Aaron James Wendland, Christopher ... - 9780367586225

Taylor & Francis

This collection offers the first comprehensive and definitive account of Martin Heidegger\u2019s philosophy of technology. It does so through a detailed analysis of canonical texts and recently published primary sources on two crucial concepts in Heidegger\u2019s later thought: Gelassenheit and Gestell. Gelassenheit, translated as \u2018releasement\u2019, and Gestell, often translated as \u2018enframing\u2019, stand as opposing ideas in Heidegger\u2019s work whereby the meditative thinking of Gelassenheit counters the dangers of our technological framing of the world in Gestell. After opening with a scholarly overview of Heidegger\u2019s philosophy of technology as a whole, this volume focuses on important Heideggerian critiques of science, technology, and modern industrialized society as well as Heidegger\u2019s belief that transformations in our thought processes enable us to resist the restrictive domain of modern techno-scientific practice. Key themes discussed in this collection.