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"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume--intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader--call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking....
"Heidegger is not a 'primitive' or a 'romanitic.' He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens and responsibilities of contemporary life into serenity, either through the re-creating of some idyllic past or through the exalting of some simple experience. Finally, Heidegger is not a foe of technology and science. He neither disdains nor rejects them as though they were only destructive of human life.
"The roots of Heidegger's hinking lie deep in the Western philosophical tradition. Yet that thinking is unique in many of its aspects, in its language, and in its leterary expression. In the development of this thought Heidegger has been taught chiefly by the Greeks, by German idealism, by phenomenology, and by the scholastic theological tradition. In him these and other elements have been fused by his genius of sensitivity and intellect into a very individual philosophical expression."--William Lovitt, from the Introduction
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Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the twentieth century's most important, controversial, and influential philosophers. He is the author of the monumental Being and Time as well as other works translated and published in English as Basic Writings, Poetry, Language, Thought, On Time and Being, and On the Way to Language.
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understand,
By Adam Goodell (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Question Concerning Technology And Other Essays (Paperback)
After reading Heidegger I feel as if I sort of understand nature and the nature channel.
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Heidegger at his best and most relevant,
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This review is from: The Question Concerning Technology And Other Essays (Paperback)
The Question Concerning Technology frequently has been criticized as lacking content beneath Heidegger's stormy language. Not true! It may take more than one reading (it took me about 5), but once the meaning of the concept of Enframing really takes a hold of you, it becomes the most powerful and relevant philosophical concept since Nietzsche's will to power. Responding to the challenge of Enframing, man has reduced the world of Being to his own self-referential bubble. Heidegger's words are at times the bleakest that the 20th century has to offer, yet in the second essay "The Turning," he suggests that Enframing's pervasive control of the world also provides a context for true, authentic behavior through the resistance of this powerful force. Authenticity is not a possibility for Heidegger without danger. For the detailed and patient reader, Heidegger provides a compelling description of global technology and its implications, distinguishing between the essence of technology and technological activity as well as the vibrations the essence of technology stirs in the realms of truth and ethics.
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Heidegger at his best and most relevant,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Question Concerning Technology And Other Essays (Paperback)
The Question Concerning Technology frequently has been criticized as lacking content beneath Heidegger's stormy language. Not true! It may take more than one reading (it took me about 5), but once the meaning of the concept of Enframing really takes a hold of you, it becomes the most powerful and relevant philosophical concept since Nietzsche's will to power. Responding to the challenge of Enframing, man has reduced the world of Being to his own self-referential bubble. Heidegger's words are at times the bleakest that the 20th century has to offer, yet in the second essay "The Turning," he suggests that Enframing's pervasive control of the world also provides a context for true, authentic behavior through the resistance of this powerful force. Authenticity is not a possibility for Heidegger without danger. For the detailed and patient reader, Heidegger provides a compelling description of global technology and its implications, distinguishing between the essence of technology and technological activity as well as the vibrations the essence of technology stirs in the realms of truth and ethics.
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Difficult but worthwhile philosophy,
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This review is from: The Question Concerning Technology And Other Essays (Paperback)
For anyone interested in the philosophy of science and technology these essays are essential reading. Heidegger's observations are just as relevant today as they were 50 years ago. In addition to the title essay, "The Age of the World Picture" and "Science and Reflection" are both great essays with rich insights.Yes, Heidegger is difficult. Heidegger is always difficult. But it is worth trudging through. For those seriously attempting to understand Heidegger's essays this is a very helpful edition; although I do not know German, Levitt really seems to understand both Heidegger and the nuances of the German language. His notes (while not necessarily clearer than Heidegger) help the English speaker get into the nuances lost in translation which is of utmost importance.
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Typical Heidegger, difficult, but brilliant,
By jafrank - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Question Concerning Technology And Other Essays (Paperback)
Heidegger's writing style demands a slow, extremely careful reading, and even after going over a page a few times, you're never sure if you've really gotten all of it. But he makes these chains of super smart observations that just follow one after the other so quickly that it seems impossible to keep up with some times. There is just so much thought that pivots around the ideas presented in these pieces that it's hard not to be drawn into the often perplexing etymologically derived labyrinth that he originates. The Age of the World Picture and Science and Reflection are the two I found most accessible.
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