The Gods and Technology

Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosophy at Point Park University. He is the cotranslator (with Andr Schuwer) of three volumes of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe: Parmenides (GA 54), Basic Questions of Philosophy (GA 45), and Plato's Sophist (GA 19) and the translator of Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle (GA 61). He is also the translator of two volumes of Husserliana, Husserl's collected works: Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Second Book (Hua 4; cotranslated with Andr Schuwer) and Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907 (Hua 16).

Preface Introduction Part I. Ancient Technology The four causes as obligations, as making ready the ground The so-called efficient cause in Aristotle Abetting causality as a reading of Heidegger Letting, active letting, letting all the way to the end Producing, bringing-forth, nature Manufacture and contemplation Bringing-forth as disconcealment Disclosive looking Technology and truth The Greek concept of techne Ancient technological practice as poiesis Part II. Modern Technology Ancient versus modern technology Modern technology as a challenging: the gear and the capacitor Modern technology as an imposition Modern technology as a ravishment Modern technology as a disposing "Disposables" Ge-stell, the "all-encompassing imposition" The essence of modern technology as nothing technological Science as harbinger Science as mediator Causality; modern physics The novelty of modern technology Part III. The Danger in Modern Technology Asking about and asking for Sent destiny, history, chronology Freedom Hastening Doom The danger The highest danger The occultation of poiesis That which might save The sense of essence Enduring Bestowal The essence as something bestowed Bestowal as what might save The mystery The constellation Transition to the question of art Part IV. Art (Metaphysical) aesthetics versus (ontological) philosophy of art Art as most properly poetry Art and the history of Being Art and technology Questioning Part V. Detachment Contemplation; Detachment (Gelassenheit) Openness to the mystery, autochthony, lasting human works Conclusion: phenomenology; improvisation on the piety in art Notes Cited Works of Heidegger Bibliography of Major Secondary Studies Index