Gods and Technology

Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosophy at Point Park University. He is the cotranslator (with André Schuwer) of three volumes of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe: Parmenides (GA 54), Basic Questions of Philosophy (GA 45), and Plato's Sophist (GA 19) and the translator of Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle (GA 61). He is also the translator of two volumes of Husserliana, Husserl's collected works: Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Second Book (Hua 4; cotranslated with André Schuwer) and Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907 (Hua 16).

"…an insightful 'reading' of Heidegger's landmark essay 'Die Frage nach der Technik' ('The Question Concerning Technology') … Rojcewicz makes a significant contribution to the study of Heidegger's philosophy of technology." — Journal of Phenomenological Psychology"…this work not only contains an elucidation of Heidegger's argument, it also discusses how to comprehend Heidegger's inventive use of language in a way that is a valuable asset for those reading Heidegger in English."— Religious Studies Review

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Ancient Technology The four causes as obligations, as making ready the groundThe so-called efficient cause in AristotleAbetting causality as a reading of HeideggerLetting, active letting, letting all the way to the endProducing, bringing-forth, natureManufacture and contemplationBringing-forth as disconcealmentDisclosive lookingTechnology and truthThe Greek concept of techneAncient technological practice as poiesisPart II. Modern Technology Ancient versus modern technologyModern technology as a challenging: the gear and the capacitorModern technology as an impositionModern technology as a ravishmentModern technology as a disposing"Disposables"Ge-stell, the "all-encompassing imposition"The essence of modern technology as nothing technologicalScience as harbingerScience as mediatorCausality; modern physicsThe novelty of modern technologyPart III. The Danger in Modern Technology Asking about and asking forSent destiny, history, chronologyFreedomHasteningDoomThe dangerThe highest dangerThe occultation of poiesisThat which might saveThe sense of essenceEnduringBestowalThe essence as something bestowedBestowal as what might saveThe mysteryThe constellationTransition to the question of artPart IV. Art (Metaphysical) aesthetics versus (ontological) philosophy of artArt as most properly poetryArt and the history of BeingArt and technologyQuestioningPart V. Detachment Contemplation; Detachment (Gelassenheit)Openness to the mystery, autochthony, lasting human worksConclusion: phenomenology; improvisation on the piety in artNotesCited Works of HeideggerBibliography of Major Secondary StudiesIndex