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5Environmental PhilosophyIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Uncovering the Conceptual Roots of Environmental Devastation From Ontological Method to Eco‐Phenomenological Ethics The Meaning of the Earth Naturalistic Ethical Realism in Eco‐Phenomenology Transcendental Ethical Realism in Eco‐Phenomenology Levinas, Heidegger, and the Ethical Question of Animality.
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2Heidegger and National SocialismIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction From Historicality to Heidegger's University Politics: Restoring Philosophy to Her Throne The Philosophical Lesson.
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17Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the AlternativeIn Russell Blackford & Damien Broderick (eds.), Intelligence Unbound, Wiley. 2014-08-11.Fischer suggests that the endless life of an immortal would be just as desirable as the very long but finite life of a long‐lived mortal. Fischer acknowledges that this is “one of the most difficult and challenging issues surrounding immortality.” This chapter answers the following: Why do we think, conversely, that being able to die makes a crucial difference? Why would an individual existence that could never come to an end necessarily be bad?. An immortal being could conceivably cycle through…Read more
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1Understanding technology ontotheologically, or the danger and the promise of Heidegger, an American perspectiveIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Evan Selinger & Søren Riis (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Technology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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1Technology, Ontotheology, EducationIn Aaron James Wendland, Christopher D. Merwin & Christos Hadjioannou (eds.), Heidegger on Technology, Routledge. pp. 174-193. 2019.
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6The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (2): 418-419. 2001.When Kant finished the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, he was 56 years old and had already published more than 25 essays and monographs. In this precritical oeuvre the young Kant unabashedly answered some of the most difficult questions of theoretical physics, physical geography, cosmology, theology, and moral theory, advancing ambitious theories about the origin and history of the universe, the nature of space, the age of the earth and the stability of its rotation, the causes of earthquakes, …Read more
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16The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the Second World War. Focusing particularly on those insights and movements that most profoundly shaped the English-speaking philosophical world, this volume bridges the traditional divide between “analytic” and “Continental” philosophy while also reaching beyond it.…Read more
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30Rethinking education after Heidegger: Teaching learning as ontological response-abilityEducational Philosophy and Theory 48 (8): 846-861. 2016.This article develops Thomson’s post-Heideggerian view that ontological education is centrally concerned with disclosing being creatively and responsibly. To disclose being creatively and responsibly is to realize the meaning of being, developing our historical understanding of what being means along with our consequent understanding of what it means for us to be, both communally and in the many facets of our own individual lives. As ontological educators, we disclose our own being by becoming w…Read more
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64Thinking love: Heidegger and ArendtContinental Philosophy Review 50 (4): 453-478. 2017.“Thinking Love: Heidegger and Arendt” explores the problematic nature of romantic love as it developed between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, whom Heidegger later called “the passion of his life.” I suggest that three different ways of understanding love can be found at work in Heidegger and Arendt’s relationship, namely, the perfectionist, the unconditional, and the ontological models of love. Explaining these different ways of thinking romantic love, this paper shows how the distinctive p…Read more
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69Heidegger on ontological education, or: How we become what we areInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 44 (3). 2001.Heidegger presciently diagnosed the current crisis in higher education. Contemporary theorists like Bill Readings extend and update Heidegger's critique, documenting the increasing instrumentalization, professionalization, vocationalization, corporatization, and technologization of the modern university, the dissolution of its unifying and guiding ideals, and, consequently, the growing hyper-specialization and ruinous fragmentation of its departments. Unlike Heidegger, however, these critics do …Read more
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85The Silence of the Limbs: Critiquing Culture from a Heideggerian Understanding of the Work of ArtEnculturation 2 (1). 1998.In 1991 Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs made off with five Academy Awards, including the coveted "Best Picture." Merely to introduce this fact I have already had to ignore several potentially relevant questions. [1] But I will spare you the tedium of endlessly qualifying my choice of subject matter; both existentialism and psychoanalysis teach us that the attempt to get behind our own starting points or render our pasts completely transparent to ourselves is an impossible task. Rather, l…Read more
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17Schönfeld, Martin. The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (2): 418-420. 2001.
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46In the future philosophy will be neither continental nor analytic but synthetic: Toward a promiscuous miscegenation of (all) philosophical traditions and stylesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 50 (2): 191-205. 2012.In this paper, I suggest that the important philosophy of the future will increasingly be found neither in the “continental” nor in the “analytic” traditions but, instead, in the transcending sublation of (all) traditions I call “synthetic philosophy.” I mean “synthetic” both in a sense that encourages the bold combinatorial mélange of existing styles, traditions, and issues, and also in the Hegelian sense of sublating dichotomous oppositions, appropriating the distinctive insights of both sides…Read more
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150From the Question concerning technology to the Quest for a democratic technology: Heidegger, Marcuse, FeenbergInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (2). 2000.Andrew Feenberg?s most recent contribution to the critical theory of technology, Questioning Technology , is best understood as a synthesis and extension of the critiques of technology developed by Heidegger and Marcuse. By thus situating Feenberg?s endeavor to articulate and preserve a meaningful sense of agency in our increasingly technologized lifeworld, I show that some of the deepest tensions in Heidegger and Marcuse?s relation re-emerge within Feenberg?s own critical theory. Most significa…Read more
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1The End of Onto-Theology: Understanding Heidegger's Turn, Method, and PoliticsDissertation, University of California, San Diego. 1999.Martin Heidegger is now widely recognized as the most influential philosopher of the Twentieth Century. Until the late 1960's, this impact derived mainly from his early magnum opus, 1927's Being and Time. Many of this century's most significant Continental thinkers---including Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Gadamer, Marcuse, Habermas, Bultmann, and Levinas---acknowledge profound conceptual debts to insights first elaborated in this text. But Being and Time was never finished, and Heidegger conti…Read more
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68Phenomenology and TechnologyIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.As a distinctive philosophical tradition, phenomenology was founded by Husserl and then developed further ââ¬â into the domain of technology ââ¬â by Husserl's most original and important student, Heideg ger. Let us begin with this standard view and then develop..
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54Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of EducationCambridge University Press. 2005.Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his later philosophy remains shrouded in confusion and controversy. Restoring Heidegger's understanding of metaphysics as 'ontotheology' to its rightful place at the center of his later thought, this book demonstrates the depth and significance of his controversial critique of technology, his appalling misadventure with Nazism, his prescient critique of the unive…Read more
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97What's wrong with being a technological essentialist? A response to FeenbergInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (4). 2000.In Questioning Technology, Feenberg accuses Heidegger of an untenable 'technological essentialism'. Feenberg's criticisms are addressed not to technological essentialism as such, but rather to three particular kinds of technological essentialism: ahistoricism, substantivism, and one-dimensionalism. After these three forms of technological essentialism are explicated and Feenberg's reasons for finding them objectionable explained, the question whether Heidegger in fact subscribes to any of them i…Read more
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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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27The 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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150Heidegger’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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18Heidegger 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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49Transcendence 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