Lexington Books
Pages: 276
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-6766-4 • Hardback • August 2018 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-1-4985-6767-1 • eBook • August 2018 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
Søren Riis is visiting researcher/scholar at Harvard University.
Part I
The Essence of Modern Technology
Chapter 1
Martin Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology
A Question about the Free Relationship
The Essence of Modern Technology Thought of as Enframing
The Limitations of Technology
Chapter 2
Modern Technology As The Offspring Of Enframing: The Reproduction Of Modern Technology
Under the Rule of Enframing
The Self-Movement of Physis
Phenomenology of Enframing
Chapter 3
Toward an Understanding of Essence
Heidegger’s Concept of Essence
The Total Mobilization of Beings
A Matter of Time
Part II
Technology in the Context of Art
Chapter 4
“The Origin Of The Work Of Art”
“Out of the Dark Opening”
The Truth on the Work
The Truth in the Work
Chapter 5
The Truth of Technology
The Mystery of the Work of Art
Art in the Work of Technology
Dangerous Art
Part III
The Story Between Nature and Art
Chapter 6
The Genealogy of Modern Technology
Techne vs. Modern Technology
This History of Metaphysics
Two Approaches Critiquing Modernity
Chapter 7
Alternative Genealogies
The Characteristic of Beings
Biotechnology
Toward the Origin of Modern Technology
Chapter 8
Adjustment
A Timely Work of Art
“Where the Saving Power is, the Danger also Grows”
The Other Beginning
The Danish philosopher Søren Riis is one of the authorities I trust most when it comes to Heidegger. He has a rare combination of scholarly mastery of Heidegger's texts and up-to-date awareness of the latest trends in the philosophy of technology. His respect for the reader's intelligence also makes reading his works an unusually pleasant experience. I am delighted to see this work finally being published in English.
— Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture
As for the evocative title of his book, Søren Riis’ objective is to ‘unframe’ Heidegger’s concept of enframing. His book offers an exegetically precise reading of QCT but also, and more importantly, a novel way of interpreting it by examining some of Heidegger’s other works. . . . Riis’ book can contribute to a serious discussion on why and how Heidegger’s QCT is read and taught in many departments.
— Metascience
The Danish philosopher Søren Riis is one of the authorities I trust most when it comes to Heidegger. He has a rare combination of scholarly mastery of Heidegger's texts and up-to-date awareness of the latest trends in the philosophy of technology. His respect for the reader's intelligence also makes reading his works an unusually pleasant experience. I am delighted to see this work finally being published in English.
— Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture
A faithful, painstaking and subversive many-worlds rereading of Heidegger. It might be Heidegger’s ‘supreme danger,’ but perhaps enframing is not so bad after all.
— Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter
Regarding Heidegger on technology, Søren Riis gets things just right. He rejects the common tendency to favor either loyal scholarship or creative misuse. Instead, although he starts with a careful reading of “The Question of Technology” in its own terms, his purpose is to argue that today, Heidegger’s view is both initially necessary and ultimately unsatisfying. In this way, Riis not only sets the terms for a sensitive, critical rethinking of other important aspects of Heidegger’s thought. He also opens us up to numerous “unframing” possibilities relating to current technoscientifically framed concerns about nature, art, history, and truth. His final suggestion is perhaps the most challenging: As Riis sees it, Heidegger’s famous essay encourages us to go forward from him by developing multiple “genealogies” of modern technology, each amounting to a freedom-manifesting “temporal artwork.”
— Robert C. Scharff, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire