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This book is the first monograph that takes a comprehensive
approach to Jacques Derrida as a philosopher of technology. It
refines and complements his mainstream image as a philosopher of
language and deconstructionist of classical literary and
philosophical texts. This volume outlines the key features of
Derrida's alternative philosophy of technology, a philosophy which
Sjoestrand argues, avoids the problems associated with, on the one
hand, a Heideggerian orientation, which completely separates
thinking and technology and, on the other, an empirically oriented
"post-phenomenology" that can be said to be hegemonic within the
field today. Based on a sustained interpretation of Derrida, and a
robust, coherent philosophy of technology, a phenomenology of
technology is developed that, in a radical way, extends the concept
of technology to cover the entire field of phenomenology. This
places the technological not in opposition to humanity, but rather
always already in close proximity to man and, consequently, to
life, ethics, politics, democracy and religion. Strikingly, this
important aspect of Derrida's thinking is only rarely analyzed or
discussed by his many exegetes. This text appeals to graduates and
researchers working on Derrida, phenomenology, and the philosophy
of technology.
This book is the first monograph that takes a comprehensive
approach to Jacques Derrida as a philosopher of technology. It
refines and complements his mainstream image as a philosopher of
language and deconstructionist of classical literary and
philosophical texts. This volume outlines the key features of
Derrida's alternative philosophy of technology, a philosophy which
Sjoestrand argues, avoids the problems associated with, on the one
hand, a Heideggerian orientation, which completely separates
thinking and technology and, on the other, an empirically oriented
"post-phenomenology" that can be said to be hegemonic within the
field today. Based on a sustained interpretation of Derrida, and a
robust, coherent philosophy of technology, a phenomenology of
technology is developed that, in a radical way, extends the concept
of technology to cover the entire field of phenomenology. This
places the technological not in opposition to humanity, but rather
always already in close proximity to man and, consequently, to
life, ethics, politics, democracy and religion. Strikingly, this
important aspect of Derrida's thinking is only rarely analyzed or
discussed by his many exegetes. This text appeals to graduates and
researchers working on Derrida, phenomenology, and the philosophy
of technology.
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