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26Symposium on questioning technology by Andrew FeenbergInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
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90Ontology and ethics at the intersection of phenomenology and environmental philosophyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 47 (4). 2004.The idea inspiring the eco-phenomenological movement is that phenomenology can help remedy our environmental crisis by uprooting and replacing environmentally-destructive ethical and metaphysical presuppositions inherited from modern philosophy. Eco-phenomenology's critiques of subject/object dualism and the fact/value divide are sketched and its positive alternatives examined. Two competing approaches are discerned within the eco-phenomenological movement: Nietzscheans and Husserlians propose a…Read more
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128Heidegger's AestheticsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010.Heidegger is against the modern tradition of philosophical “aesthetics” because he is for the true “work of art” which, he argues, the aesthetic approach to art eclipses. Heidegger's critique of aesthetics and his advocacy of art thus form a complementary whole. Section 1 orients the reader by providing a brief overview of Heidegger's philosophical stand against aesthetics, for art. Section 2 explains Heidegger's philosophical critique of aesthetics, showing why he thinks aesthetics follows from…Read more
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21The Philosophical Fugue: Understanding the Structure and Goal of Heidegger's BeiträgeJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 34 (1): 57-73. 2003.
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10Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is widely considered one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century, and, thanks to his (failed) attempt to assume philosophical leadership of the century’s most execrable political movement (Nazism) and his later critique of the history of metaphysics from Anaximander to Nietzsche as inherently nihilistic, he is also certainly the most controversial.
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148Heidegger’s perfectionist philosophy of educationin Being and TimeContinental Philosophy Review 37 (4): 439-467. 2004.In Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education, I argue that Heidegger’s ontological thinking about education forms one of the deep thematic undercurrents of his entire career, but I focus mainly on Heidegger’s later work in order to make this case. The current essay extends this view to Heidegger’s early magnum opus, contending that Being and Time is profoundly informed – albeit at a subterranean level – by Heidegger’s perfectionist thinking about education. Explaining t…Read more
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15Heidegger and the Politics of the UniversityJournal of the History of Philosophy 41 (4): 515-542. 2003.This article examines the development of Heidegger's philosophical views on university education, situates these views within their broader historical and philosophical context, and shows them to be largely responsible for Heidegger's decision to become the first Nazi Rector of Freiburg University in 1933. Did Heidegger learn from this appalling political misadventure and so transform the underlying philosophical views that helped motivate it? It is argued, against the interpretations of Pöggele…Read more
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47Transcendence and the Problem of Otherworldly Nihilism: Taylor, Heidegger, NietzscheInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (2): 140-159. 2011.This paper examines Charles Taylor's case against complete secularization in A Secular Age in the light of Nietzsche's and Heidegger's critiques of the potential for nihilism inherent in different kinds of philosophical appeals to ?transcendence?. The Heideggerian critique of metaphysics as ontotheology suggests that the theoretical pluralism Taylor rightly embraces is more consistently thought of as following from a robust ontological pluralism, and that Taylor's own commitment to ontological m…Read more