Unframing Martin Heideggers Understanding of Technology: On the Essential Connection between Technology, Art, and History

(Hardback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heideggers most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heideggers notion of modern technology. Heideggers impressive work still hides many treasures and strange thoughts giving original insights into the rise of biotechnology, transgressions between art and technology and the writing of Western history. By way of surprising thought experiments, critical questioning, allusions and systematic conclusions, this book presents Heideggers thoughts on technology in a way that not only shows his importance for philosophy and modern society, but also identifies his shortcomings and uses his original thoughts and concepts against him.

Reviews

The Danish philosopher Sren Riis is one of the authorities I trust most when it comes to Heidegger. He has a rare combination of scholarly mastery of Heidegger's texts and up-to-date awareness of the latest trends in the philosophy of technology. His respect for the reader's intelligence also makes reading his works an unusually pleasant experience. I am delighted to see this work finally being published in English. -- Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture
A faithful, painstaking and subversive many-worlds rereading of Heidegger. It might be Heideggers supreme danger, but perhaps enframing is not so bad after all. -- Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter

Author Bio

Sren Riis is visiting researcher/scholar at Harvard University.