Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger

Anna Kouppanou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cyprus.

"Anna Kouppanou revisits Heidegger’s Being and Time, basing her analysis on the ‘tendency to nearness’ that characterises the human being according to Heidegger. At the same time, this highly original and fruitful inquiry is an interpretation of the various transformations of Heidegger’s thought ̵ from the ‘question of Being’ to ‘Gestell’ and the episode of the proximity to Nazism. On the basis of a complete transformation of the questions of synthesis and metaphor in Heidegger, and in an effort to rethink education, Kouppanou is ultimately devoted to the examination of digital technologies as technologies of nearness and metaphor. The book thus restates the question of Bildung in a profound way, thinking it from the perspective of metaphorical imagination and as a condition of care; indeed, at a time (in the absence of an epoch) characterised as the age of ‘post-truth’; when care as well as education seem to be condemned to oblivion. By bringing the question of Bildung to that of imagination, and the question of imagination to that of metaphorical synthesis, Anna Kouppanou opens the prospect of a possible remembrance - anamnesis - from that which manifests itself as the ‘time of distress’ of Gestell, whose domination seems to have become total." - Bernard Stiegler, Director of the Institute of Research and Development, Georges Pompidou Center, France and Associated Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

• Introduction 1. Heidegger and Education: What Technology can tells us about Education 2. Hermeneutics and Heidegger’s Imaginings 3. Imaginative Synthesis as Metaphor 4. The Ready-to-hand: Nearness in Early Heidegger 5. Rootedness: Nearness as a Political Scheme 6. Re-turning Home: Nearness in Later Heidegger 7. Digital Metaphoric Machines of Nearness 8. Education as Bildung and Formation according to Image Conclusions