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SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought
The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger
An analysis of Heidegger's philosophy of technology.
The Gods and Technology is a careful and original reading of the principal statement of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology, the essay Die Frage nach der Technik ("The question concerning technology"). That essay is a rich one, and Richard Rojcewicz's goal is to mine it for the treasures only a close reading of the original German text can bring out. Rojcewicz shows how the issue of technology is situated at the very heart of Heidegger's philosophical enterprise; especially for the late Heidegger, the philosophy of technology is a philosophy of Being, or of the gods.
For Heidegger, technology is not applied knowledge, but the most basic knowledge, of which science, for example, is an application. The ultimate goal of this study, and, as Rojcewicz writes, of Heidegger's thought, is to find the appropriate response to the challenges of the modern age, to learn to live in a technological world without falling victim to the thrall of technological things.
"...an insightful 'reading' of Heidegger's landmark essay 'Die Frage nach der Technik' ('The Question Concerning Technology') ... Rojcewicz makes a significant contribution to the study of Heidegger's philosophy of technology." — Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
"...this work not only contains an elucidation of Heidegger's argument, it also discusses how to comprehend Heidegger's inventive use of language in a way that is a valuable asset for those reading Heidegger in English." — Religious Studies Review
The Gods and Technology is a careful and original reading of the principal statement of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology, the essay Die Frage nach der Technik ("The question concerning technology"). That essay is a rich one, and Richard Rojcewicz's goal is to mine it for the treasures only a close reading of the original German text can bring out. Rojcewicz shows how the issue of technology is situated at the very heart of Heidegger's philosophical enterprise; especially for the late Heidegger, the philosophy of technology is a philosophy of Being, or of the gods.
For Heidegger, technology is not applied knowledge, but the most basic knowledge, of which science, for example, is an application. The ultimate goal of this study, and, as Rojcewicz writes, of Heidegger's thought, is to find the appropriate response to the challenges of the modern age, to learn to live in a technological world without falling victim to the thrall of technological things.
"...an insightful 'reading' of Heidegger's landmark essay 'Die Frage nach der Technik' ('The Question Concerning Technology') ... Rojcewicz makes a significant contribution to the study of Heidegger's philosophy of technology." — Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
"...this work not only contains an elucidation of Heidegger's argument, it also discusses how to comprehend Heidegger's inventive use of language in a way that is a valuable asset for those reading Heidegger in English." — Religious Studies Review
- GenresPhilosophy
256 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2005
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September 7, 2014
This was very interesting!
May 23, 2018
update 2018-05-23:
this is actually an awful dilution/corruption of heidegger.
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Helpful and startlingly clear for a commentary on Heidegger, but also shallower than what I had expected. Rojcewicz repeats himself a lot, some of his interpretations feel strained, and he goes too much for Big Being (the history of being seems to depend upon its morning moods); on the other hand, his analyses of the original German words and his retranslations are very nice for us Germanless philistines. Good enough reading for H newbies — as long as you don't stop here!
this is actually an awful dilution/corruption of heidegger.
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Helpful and startlingly clear for a commentary on Heidegger, but also shallower than what I had expected. Rojcewicz repeats himself a lot, some of his interpretations feel strained, and he goes too much for Big Being (the history of being seems to depend upon its morning moods); on the other hand, his analyses of the original German words and his retranslations are very nice for us Germanless philistines. Good enough reading for H newbies — as long as you don't stop here!
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