Table of Contents

Introduction: Heidegger’s Thinking Through Technology

Christopher Merwin, Aaron James Wendland, and Christos Hadjioannou

1. The Task of Thinking in a Technological Age

Mark A. Wrathall

2. Im-position: Heidegger’s Analysis of the Essence of Modern Technology

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

3. Heidegger’s Critique of Techno-science as a Critique of Husserl’s Reductive Method

Christos Hadjioannou

4. The Challenge of Heidegger’s Approach to Technology: A Phenomenological Reading

Steven Crowell

5. Letting Things Be for Themselves: Gelassenheit as Enabling Thinking

Tobias Keiling

6. The Question Concerning the Machine: Heidegger’s Technology Notebooks in the 1940s-50s

Andrew J. Mitchell

7. Heidegger’s Releasement from the Technological Will

Bret W. Davis

8. Heidegger’s New Beginning: History, Technology, and National Socialism

Aaron James Wendland

9. Technology, Ontotheology, Education

Iain Thomson

10. Heidegger, Habermas, Freedom, and Technology

Julian Young

11. How Pertinent is Heidegger’s Thinking for Deep Ecology?

Michael E. Zimmerman

12. Poetry and the Gods: From Gestell to Gelassenheit

Susanne Claxton

13. Letting Beings Be: An Ecofeminist Reading of Gestell, Gelassenheit, and Sustainability

Patricia Glazebrook

14. Machenshaft and the Audit Society: The Philosophy and Politics of the ‘Accessibility of Everything to Everyone’

Denis McManus

15. Heidegger vs. Kuhn: Does Science Think?

Aaron James Wendland

16. Quantum Theory as Technology

Taylor Carman

17. Naturalizing Gestell?

Rafael Winkler

About the Author

Aaron James Wendland is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Higher School of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford, and he is the co-editor of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (Routledge, 2013).





Christopher Merwin is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University. He is currently writing his dissertation on Heidegger’s later concept of time.





Christos Hadjioannou is an Associate Tutor at Sussex University, where he recently completed his Ph.D. thesis entitled The Emergence of Mood in Heidegger’s Phenomenology.

Reviews

"This volume is a valuable resource that I highly recommend for those wanting to learn more about, and engage critically with, Heidegger's philosophy of technology." – David R. Cerbone in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"This collection is extremely rich and serves as an superb guide to Heidegger’s writings on technology. The parallels it draws between Heidegger and other thinkers are illuminating, and scholarly innovation is achieved through the diverse approaches taken by the contributors. Briefly, this book is a must-have for those seeking to study Heidegger’s philosophy of technology." – Anne Boily in Canadian Philosophical Review"Heidegger on Technology provides a tightly focussed array of Heidegger scholarship by many eminent figures in the field. As its title suggests, its concern is to provide a systematic and multifaceted critical evaluation of the ways in which Heidegger thinks about technology in his later writings" – Stephen Mulhall in the European Journal of Philosophy"Heidegger on Technology contains instructive contributions that provide its readers with plenty of insights concerning Heidegger’s development of thought, whether it be its breaks or its continuities. Like any other companion it offers useful hints, much needed clarifications, even congenial interpretations" – Florian Arnold in Phenomenological Reviews"Bringing together an array of Heideggerian scholars and incorporating the latest translated materials, this collection provides a fascinating account of Heidegger’s famous and influential analysis of technology." – Gavin Rae, Charles III University of Madrid, Spain"Heidegger on Technology provides an abundance of insight into Heidegger's ideas and how these ideas are expresses and experienced in the contemporary world." -Glen Miller and Christopher Black in Sophia