The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of

Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosopy at Point Park University.

Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosophy at Point Park University

Preface

vii

Introduction

1

(14)

Part I. Ancient Technology

15

(52)

The four causes as obligations, as making ready the ground

15

(4)

The so-called efficient cause in Aristotle

19

(10)

Abetting causality as a reading of Heidegger

29

(3)

Letting, active letting, letting all the way to the end

32

(3)

Producing, bringing-forth, nature

35

(5)

Manufacture and contemplation

40

(7)

Bringing-forth as disconcealment

47

(7)

Disclosive looking

54

(1)

Technology and truth

55

(2)

The Greek concept of techne

57

(8)

Ancient technological practice as poiesis

65

(2)

Part II. Modern Technology

67

(60)

Ancient versus modern technology

67

(4)

Modern technology as a challenging: the gear and the capacitor

71

(4)

Modern technology as an imposition

75

(3)

Modern technology as a ravishment

78

(2)

Modern technology as a disposing

80

(3)

"Disposables"

83

(7)

Ge-stell, the "all-encompassing imposition"

90

(17)

The essence of modern technology as nothing technological

107

(4)

Science as harbinger

111

(7)

Science as mediator

118

(1)

Causality; modern physics

119

(5)

The novelty of modern technology

124

(3)

Part III. The Danger in Modern Technology

127

(58)

Asking about and asking for

127

(2)

Sent destiny, history, chronology

129

(2)

Freedom

131

(8)

Hastening

139

(1)

Doom

140

(1)

The danger

141

(1)

The highest danger

142

(10)

The occultation of poiesis

152

(1)

That which might save

153

(3)

The sense of essence

156

(4)

Enduring

160

(4)

Bestowal

164

(2)

The essence as something bestowed

166

(2)

Bestowal as what might save

168

(6)

The mystery

174

(4)

The constellation

178

(4)

Transition to the question of art

182

(3)

Part IV. Art

185

(28)

(Metaphysical) aesthetics versus (ontological) philosophy of art

186

(5)

Art as most properly poetry

191

(10)

Art and the history of Being

201

(1)

Art and technology

202

(5)

Questioning

207

(6)

Part V. Detachment

213

(20)

Contemplation; Detachment (Gelassenheit)

214

(4)

Openness to the mystery, autochthony, lasting human works

218

(8)

Conclusion: phenomenology, improvisation on the piety in art

226

(7)

Notes

233

(4)

Cited Works of Heidegger

237

(2)

Bibliography of Major Secondary Studies

239

(2)

Index

241

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