The Fundamental Tendency of Our Time by Emanuele Severino, An... - 9781350468368

The Fundamental Tendency of Our TimeOn the Technological Destiny of the West\nAuthor(s): Emanuele Severino, Antimo Lucarelli\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350468368, 978-1350468368\nSynopsis\nThe Fundamental Tendency of Our Times (Tendenza) is the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severinos crucial reflection on modern technology and science, in which he articulates his major contribution to the analysis of Western modernity: the claim that, beginning with Greek civilization, a nihilistic spirit of domination informs our conceptual and social systems. \n\nIn this book Severino applies his framework to the geopolitical situation before the fall of the Berlin Wall; yet his insights have continuing relevance in light of the current threat of ecological collapse accelerated by an orientation to the world as an object of exploitation. \n\nSignificant for its parallels with, and differences from, Heidegger's d.