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This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of
Heidegger's thought into English-language philosophical schools as
well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by
contemporary scholars. The text describes the ways in which a
philosophical methodology and worldview seemingly so inhospitable
to Anglophone academia has managed to find an unlikely home. This
volume is roughly divided into two types of contributions:
discussions of Heidegger's reception in the English-speaking world,
and outstanding examples of English-language Heidegger scholarship.
The first type includes both historiographical accounts of the
encounters between Heidegger's thought and the Anglo-American
world, as well as their philosophical expositions and critiques.
The second group of chapters reveal the latest contemporary
scholarship by contemporary Heideggerians writing in English. It is
moreover the first volume to bring together thinkers from both
genealogies of Anglo-American Heideggerianism appealing to students
and researchers working in both of these camps.
Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and
theoretical practices in the age of media archaeology, philosophy
of technology, and digital humanities as the French thinker Gilbert
Simondon. Simondon's prolific intellectual curiosity led his
philosophical and scientific reflections to traverse a variety of
areas of research, including philosophy, psychology, the beginnings
of cybernetics, and the foundations of religion. For Simondon, the
human/machine distinction is perhaps not a simple dichotomy. There
is much we can learn from our technical objects, and while it has
been said that humans have an alienating rapport with technical
objects, Simondon takes up the task of a true thinker who sees the
potential for humanity to uncover life-affirming modes of technical
objects whereby we can discover potentiality for novel, healthful,
and dis-alienating rapports with them. For Simondon, by way of
studying its genesis, one must grant to the technical object the
same ontological status as that of the aesthetic object or even a
living being. His work thus opens up exciting new entry points into
studying the human's rapport with its continually changing
technical reality. This first complete English-language translation
of Gilbert Simondon's groundbreaking and influential work finally
presents to Anglophone readers one of the pinnacle works of
France's most unique thinkers of technics.
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