Rifqi Khairul Anam

This study challenges the illusion of consumer sovereignty in the digital age by diagnosing online shopping not as a convenience, but as a manifestation of Technological Framing (Gestell) that fundamentally entraps human existence. Deploying Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of technology alongside Baudrillard’s concept of the "Gizmo," researcher argue that e-commerce platforms function as engines of "Total Mobilization" and "Machination," systematically manipulating desire to transform the human subject into a mere "Standing Reserve" (Bestand) serving the gigantic machinery of digital capitalism. By analyzing compulsive buying behaviors, this research exposes how the algorithmic pursuit of "new experiences" strips objects of their essence and plunges the modern subject into an "Abandonment of Being," resulting in a state of ontological homelessness where the subject is mobilized solely to consume emptiness.

This article explores Martin Heidegger's existentialist thought and its relevance to human existence in the technological world. Rapid technological development creates a paradox: those who fail to adapt risk alienation, yet those who blindly follow the flow without understanding its essence risk losing their self-identity. This study aims to determine the nature of technology while offering a perspective through Heidegger's existentialist philosophy. This is library research utilizing specific methodological elements: (1) Understanding: The mode of revealing meaning in a situational context; (2) Interpretation: The explication of understanding to see something "as" something, using Heidegger’s philosophy as the lens; and (3) Formal Indication: A methodological concept where philosophical concepts point to phenomena without claiming to exhaustively represent the whole situation.

In Indonesia’s intellectual landscape, Kuntowijoyo’s Prophetic Social Science emerged as a critical response to the dominance of Western positivism, which has been criticized for its inability to grasp the ethical and transcendental dimensions of social reality. Despite its transformative vision, this framework has long faced a fundamental challenge: the absence of a coherent ontological foundation that could sustain its three pillars—humanization, liberation, and transcendence. This research aims to address that gap by proposing Heideggerian social ontology as a new philosophical basis for Prophetic Social Science. Using a qualitative method of critical conceptual analysis, this research examines key philosophical and sociological texts through a hermeneutic–phenomenological lens. The analysis proceeds through interpretive deconstruction and reflexive engagement to uncover the ontological and epistemological assumptions behind positivism and Heideggerian thought. The findings show that positivism’s ‘flat’ ontology cannot accommodate the prophetic vision, while Heideggerian social ontology provides a more authentic foundation for a Sociology of Ereignis—a framework that centers meaningful events, reflexivity, and disclosure. The implication of this research is that sociological inquiry, especially within Muslim societies, must be reoriented toward ontologically grounded and ethically engaged methodologies that take lived meaning and transcendence seriously.

Arjuna's crisis in the Bhagavad Gita is often interpreted as a moral or theological dilemma, yet this overlooks the profound psychological suffering depicted. This article re-examines this crisis not as a moral failure, but as a phenomenological portrait of absolute Attachment, a condition of painful enmeshment in the worldly web of relations. A Heideggerian phenomenological analysis is employed, using a close reading of the Gita's first chapter to diagnose the lived experience of Attachment and juxtaposing it with Martin Heidegger's concept of Gelassenheit (releasement). The analysis reveals Arjuna's paralysis as a direct symptom of his entrapment in calculative thinking (rechnendes Denken) born from Attachment. In contrast, Gelassenheit is presented as a meditative path of releasement (besinnliches Nachdenken) that allows one to act within the world without being ontologically consumed by it. The concept of Gelassenheit thus emerges as a powerful existential framework for understanding and responding to the specific suffering caused by Attachment, providing a bridge for a fruitful dialogue between.

Applying natural science methodologies to the social sciences causes a crisis in science. A crisis of science means the narrowing of researcher subjectivity so the possibility of research heuristics is drastically reduced. Martin Heidegger a philosopher of existentialism tried to solve this problem by developing a method that integrated schools of phenomenology and hermeneutics. This research aims to describe the hermeneutics situation method which embodies the two things above. This research is a type of library research that is descriptive and qualitative. The important value and novelty of this research is that it examines the closeness of philosophy and social science through Martin Heidegger’s way of thinking. A researcher does not live in isolation, he is connected to the context of life in which he lives. The context of life motivates researchers to see the meaning of something. In social research, researchers do not just meet social facts, but meet appropriate events (ereignis). So, social researchers are advised to avoid two things when conducting social research in the context of hermeneutics situation, namely the principle of subject-object division and the value-free principle. The reason is a presumption that a researcher was involved in the surrounding environment which then becomes the object of his research, even before conducting the research. This involvement is what makes the researcher able to understand the object of his research.