Modernity and destining of technological being : beyond Heidegger's critique of technology to responsible and reflexive technology. Temple Davis Okoro

Tadelloses Exemplar. - Table o f Contents -- S om e A b b rev iatio n s U sed 19 -- G e n eral In tr o d u c tio n 21 -- Beyond Heidegger27 -- Structural Analysis31 -- S ection O n e The R eality o f Being: H e id e g g ers F u n d a m e n ta l -- O n to lo g y -- C h a p te r I: E xperience o f Being: D a se in s B e in g -in -th e -W o rld 37 -- Introduction37 -- 1 The Question of Being38 -- 11 Aristotle: The Metaphysical Question 39 -- 12 Heidegger and the Question of Being42 -- 121 Priority of Dasein over being and entities 49 -- 13 The Nature of Dasein as Being-in-the-World57 -- 131 Meaning of Daseins 'Being-in1(In-Sein)58 -- 132 �Moodness� (Befindlichkeit) 61 -- 133 Understanding, Interpretation and Assertion64 -- 14 The W orld70 -- 141 Dasein and W orld71 -- 142 The Worldhood of the World (The Environmental World -- of Dasein) 74 -- 143 The Communal World of Dasein81 -- 143a �Being-With�82 -- 143b Modes of Daseins Being-with (Early Critique -- of Modernity)84 -- Concluding Remarks89 -- Chapter II: Heidegger�s Search for the Truth of Being 91 -- Introduction 91 -- 2 Attaining the Experience of Being 91 -- 21 The Way: Greek Origin93 -- 22 The �Turn (Kehre) 98 -- 23 The Essential/Meditative Thinking of Being 103 -- 231 Dwelling in the Nearness of Being (Dwelling Thinking) 108 -- 231a The �Thing and the �Fourfold� 112 -- 231b Poetic Dwelling119 -- 24 Seeing the Truth of Being 124 -- 241 Dasein and Aletheia 125 -- 242 Language: The house of Being 130 -- 243 Man: The Shepherd of Being 135 -- 244 Ereignis: The Event of Appropriation 137 -- 244a Features of Ereignis 140 -- 25 Levinas� Critique of Heidegger�s Project: Ontology vs Ethics 144 -- 251 Phenomenology 146 -- 252 Levinas� Critique of Heidegger 151 -- 252 a On the Question of Being and Ontology 152 -- 252 b On the Question of Ethics and Responsibility156 -- 253 Ontological Priority of Ethics 159 -- 253 a Ethical �Metaphysics�: The Other161 -- 253 b Elemental Objects as �Subordinated� to Enjoyment 164 -- 254 Ethical Subjectivity (Ipseity) 166 -- 255 The Ontological Priority of Ethical Responsibility 171 -- Concluding Remarks174 -- Section Two Towards Unmaking of Metaphysics and Questioning -- Technology -- Chapter III: The Age of Technological Being and -- Emergence o f Subjectivity 179 -- Introduction179 -- 3 The Question and Meaning of Modernity181 -- 31 Medieval Background181 -- 32 The Nature of Modernity187 -- 321 Cartesian Doubt and Reformulation of Metaphysics196 -- 322 Mathematical Demonstration and Deduction199 -- 323 The Primacy of Consciousness (Subjectivity) 202 -- 33 Heideggers Approach / Critique of Western Metaphysics208 -- 331 Heideggers Critique of Descartes' Project 212 -- 332 On Mathematics 215 -- 34 Towards the Unmaking of Metaphysics 217 -- 341 Metaphysics217 -- 342 Overcoming of Metaphysics220 -- Concluding Remarks225 -- Chapter IV: Heidegger, Technology, and Human Destiny 227 -- Introduction 227 -- 41 Towards a Definition of Technology 229 -- 42 Counter-Productivity of Modern Technology230 -- 43 Trajectories in the Philosophy of Technology233 -- 431 Existential Perspective233 -- a) Romano Guardini (1885-1968) 233 -- Role of Christianity 240 -- b) Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)242 -- c) Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) 244 -- d) Albert Borgmann (1937) 247 -- e) Don Ihde (1934) 249 -- 432 Critical Perspective250 -- a) Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer -- (1895-1973)251 -- b) Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)252 -- c) J�rgen Habermas (1929) 254 -- d) Andrew Feenberg (1943) 256 -- e) Langdon Winner (1944) 257 -- f) From Technology to Technoscience: -- Gilbert Hottois (1946)258 -- 44 Heidegger and the Question of Science and Technology 259 -- 441 The Question of Science 261 -- 442 Calculative Thinking 270 -- 443 The Question of Technology275 -- 444 The Destining of Technological Being279 -- 444 a Technology as Revealing 280 -- 444 b Technology as Enframing (Ge-stell) 287 -- 444 C Technology as the Danger and Saving Power 291 -- 444 d Releasement (Gelassenheit)298 -- 444 e The Work of Art and the Call for a G od 303 -- Concluding Remarks313 -- Section Three Toward a Responsible and Reflexive Technology -- Chapter V: The Question of Modern Technology -- a n d R esponsibility 319 -- Introduction 319 -- 5 Hans Jonas: Toward an Ethics of Technological Responsibility 321 -- 51 Modern Man-Nature Relations: Jonas� Critique of Heidegger 326 52 Ethical Implication of modern Technology330 -- 53 Toward an Ethics of Responsibility335 -- 531 The Question of Responsibility336 -- 532 Modern Technology and the Imperative of Responsibility 341 -- 54 Technology and Reflexivity in Second Modernity 347 -- 541 The Question of Reflexivity349 -- 542 Transition from Modernity to Risk Society (Reflexive -- Modernity) 356 -- 543 Risk and Responsibility361 -- 544 Towards a Reflexive Modernization 363 -- 545 Reflexive Individualization367 -- Concluding Remarks 373 -- Chapter VI: Towards a Reflexive Political Modernization 375 -- Introduction 375 -- 6 Towards a Political Reflexivity378 -- 61 Reflexivity and Subpolitics378 -- 611 Consumer Protest as Subpolitics - the question of Political, -- Ethical, and Green Consumerism 382 -- 612 Dialogic/Deliberative Democracy 387 -- 613 Importance of Epistemic Communities392 -- 614 Hybrid Forums and Collectives 395 -- 62 Towards a New Environmental Ethics 399 -- Concluding Remarks404 -- Chapter VII: General Evaluation and Conclusions 407 -- 7 General Evaluation and Conclusions407 -- 71 Heidegger 1407 -- 72 Heidegger II 409 -- 73 A New Modernity 414 -- 74 A Better Environment 418 -- General Bibliography 425 ISBN 9783631672884