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Technics and Time, 1 - The Fault of Epimetheus (Hardcover)
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Technics and Time, 1 - The Fault of Epimetheus (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy,
Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within
themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects,
which did not have the source of their own production within
themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the
Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby
the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct
temporality and dynamics of its own.
The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until
Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics.
Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a
complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while
industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the
contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social
organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical
questioning. Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world
in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was
becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality,
with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or
war, and with its epistemic status changing accordingly. The power
that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of
the two world wars.
Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment
of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of
thinkers--Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger, the paleo-ontologist
Leroi-Gourhan, the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the
sociologists Weber and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana
and Varela.
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