Technologies Of Being In Martin Heidegger: Nearness, Metaphor And The Question Of Education In Digital Times

179 Pages·2018·1.41 MB·English

by  Anna Kouppanou

Technologies of Being
in Martin Heidegger

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 n earness , this book argues that
thinking is intricately conditioned by technologically produced images, which are
themselves interacting with the imagination’s schematising power.
The book further discusses how certain metaphorical synthesising processes,
which are currently industrialised in 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.
Anna Kouppanou is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cyprus.
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Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger
Nearness, Metaphor and the Question of Education in Digital Times
Anna Kouppanou
Technologies of Being
in Martin Heidegger
Nearness, Metaphor and the Question
of Education in Digital Times
Anna Kouppanou
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Contents
Credits list ix
Foreword x
Introduction 1
1 Heidegger and education: What can technology tell us
about education? 8
1. Introduction 8
2. Enframing and educational critique 9
3. Truth and education 11
4. Education and image 15
5. Conclusion 19
2 Hermeneutics and Heidegger’s imaginings 22
1. Introduction 22
2. Phenomenology in Heidegger 2 2
3. Phantasia , imagination, Einbildungskraft 26
4. Heidegger’s phenomenological interpretation of Kant 28
5. Conclusion 32
3 Imaginative synthesis as metaphor 35
1. Introduction 35
2. The moment of vision as poetic image 36
3. Heidegger’s language and metaphor 39
4. Schema, metaphor and exteriorisation 44
5. Conclusion 47
4 The ready-to-hand: nearness in early Heidegger 50
1. Introduction 50
2. The ready-to-hand and the construction
of the already-there 51
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3. The public, the prosthetic and the historical 54
4. Dasein ’s embodiment 58
5. Conclusion 64
5 Rootedness: nearness as a political scheme 66
1. Introduction 66
2. Technology in middle Heidegger 69
2.1. A phenomenological interruption 71
2.2. Nearness as spirit 73
2.3. Rootedness and technology 75
3. A re-turn to the polis 78
4. Conclusion 83
6 Re-turning home: nearness in later Heidegger 88
1. Introduction 88
2. Returning to the house (of being) 90
3. The exteriorised and embodied metaphoricity 98
4. The metaphoric power of tools and nearness 105
5. Conclusion 109
7 Digital metaphoric machines of nearness 112
1. Introduction 112
2. The power of figuration 116
3. Digital images and metaphors of the digital 121
4. The schematisation of nearness: the case of Facebook 126
4.1. Being-there and Facebook 128
4.2. Search engines and nearness 131
4.3. Facebook’s metaphoric power 133
4.4. The prevalence of nowness in Facebook 135
5. Conclusion 136
8 Education as B ildung and as formation according to image 141
1. Introduction 141
2. Technology and Bildung : the perspective of
metaphoricity 144
3. Philosophy of education and philosophy of technology
coming together 147
4. Conclusion 153
Conclusion 156
Index 161
Credits list

Excerpts from Being and Time, 2008, by Martin Heidegger. The translation ©
1962 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Used by permission of the publisher.
Excerpts from T echnics and Time, Volume 1: The Fault of Epimetheus , 1998, by
Bernard Stiegler. Copyright © by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
Jr. University. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the publisher, Stanford
University Press, sup.org.
Excerpts from Angelaki, T echnics of Decision an Interview, Volume 8, Issue 2,
2003, pp. 151–168, by Bernard Stiegler. Copyright © 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd
www.tandfonline.com reprinted by permission of the publisher .
Chapter 6 is a later version of ‘Ethics, Phenomenology and Ontology’, 2013,
by Anna Kouppanou and Paul Standish in The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technol-
ogy and Research , edited by Sara Price, Carey Jewitt and Barry Brown. Chapter 7
@ Anna Kouppanou & Paul Standish 2013. Used by permission of the authors
and the publisher, SAGE.