Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger - 9781138220683

Taylor & Francis

Technologies of Being in Martin HeideggerNearness, Metaphor and the Question of Education in Digital Times\nAuthor(s): Anna Kouppanou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138220683, 978-1138220683\nSynopsis\nTechnologies of Being in Martin Heidegger attempts to deepen the dialogue between philosophy of education and philosophy of technology, while engaging with the thought of Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Through a critical reading of Heideggers central notion of nearness, this book argues that thinking is intricately conditioned by technologically produced images, which are themselves interacting with imaginations schematizing power. \n\nThe book further discusses how certain metaphorical synthesising processes, which are currently industrialized taking the form of social networking sites and search engines, discretise human behaviour and reorganise it in ways that often marginalise human interpre.