Ernst J?ngerAEs Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

This book examines the work of Ernst Junger and its effect on the development of Martin Heidegger s influential philosophy of technology. Vincent Blok offers a unique treatment of Junger s philosophy and his conception of the age of technology, in which both world and man appear in terms of their functionality and efficiency. The primary objective of Junger s novels and essays is to make the transition from the totally mobilized world of the 20thcentury toward a world in which a new type of man represents the gestalt of the worker and is responsive to this new age. Blok proceeds to demonstrate Junger s influence on Heidegger s analysis of the technological age in his later work, as well as Heidegger s conceptions of will, work and gestalt at the beginning of the 1930s. At the same time, Blok evaluates Heidegger s criticism of Junger and provides a novel interpretation of the Junger-Heidegger connection: that Junger s work in fact testifies to a transformation of our relationship to language and conceptualizes the future in terms of the Anthropocene. This book, which arrives alongside several new English-language translations of Junger s work, will interest scholars of 20th-century continental philosophy, Heidegger, and the history of philosophy of technology. "

• | Author: Vincent Blok
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 166 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138737593
• | ISBN-13: 9781138737594