The gods and technology : a reading of Heidegger / Richard Rojcewicz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240) and index.

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The Gods and Technology; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Ancient Technology; The four causes as obligations, as making ready the ground; The so-called efficient cause in Aristotle; Letting, active letting, letting all the way to the end; Producing, bringing-forth, nature; Manufacture and contemplation; Disclosive looking; Technology and truth; The Greek concept of techne; Ancient technological practice as poiesis; 2. Modern Technology; Ancient versus modern technology; Modern technology as a challenging: The gear and thecapacitor; Modern technology as an imposition.

Modern technology as a ravishmentModern technology as a disposing; "Disposables"; Ge-stell, the "all-encompassing imposition"; The essence of modern technology as nothing technological; Science as harbinger; Causality; modern physics; The novelty of modern technology; 3. The Danger in Modern Technology; Asking about and asking for; Sent destiny, history, chronology; Freedom; Hastening; Doom; The danger; The highest danger; The occultation of poiesis; That which might save; The sense of essence; Enduring; Bestowal; The essence as something bestowed; Bestowal as what might save; The mystery.

The constellationTransition to the question of art; 4. Art; (Metaphysical) aesthetics versus (ontological)philosophy of art; Art as most properly poetry; Art and the history of Being; Art and technology; Questioning; 5. Detachment; Contemplation; Detachment (Gelassenheit); Openness to the mystery, autochthony, lasting human works; Conclusion: phenomenology, improvisation on the piety in art; Notes; Cited Works of Heidegger; Bibliography of Major Secondary Studies ; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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