Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger: Nearness, Metaphor and the Question of Education in Digital Times (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)
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- Synopsis
- Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger attempts to deepen the dialogue between philosophy of education and philosophy of technology, while engaging with the thought of Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Through a critical reading of Heidegger’s central notion of nearness, this book argues that thinking is intricately conditioned by technologically produced images, which are themselves interacting with imagination’s schematizing power. The book further discusses how certain metaphorical synthesising processes, which are currently industrialized taking the form of social networking sites and search engines, discretise human behaviour and reorganise it in ways that often marginalise human interpretation and redefine nearness. Finally, it suggests how we might reconceptualise technology and education as processes of human individuation. Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy of technology, literary studies, cognitive linguistics and cognitive neuroscience.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 166 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781315412276
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780367232795, 9781138220683, 9781315412290
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 09/17/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Anna Kouppanou
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.