Heidegger}}}s Confrontation with Modernity Technology, Politics, and Art [Paperback]

Writing in a lively and refreshingly clear American English, Zimmerman provides an uncompromisingly honest and judicious account... of Heideggers views on technology and his involvement with National Socialism.... One of the most important books on Heidegger in recent years. John D. Caputo

... superb... Thomas Sheehan, The New York Review of Books

... thorough and complex... Choice

... excellent guide to Heidegger as eco-philosopher. Radical Philosophy

... engrossing, rich in substance... makes clear Heidegger's importance for the issue of technology, ethics, and politics. Religious Studies Review

The relation between Martin Heideggers understanding of technology and his affiliation with and conception of National Socialism is the leading idea of this fascinating and revealing book. Zimmerman shows that the key to the relation between Heideggers philosophy and his politics was his concern with the nature of working and production.

Editors Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations

Division One Heidegger and the Politics of Productionist Metaphysics: The Longing for a New World of Work

Chapter 1: Germanys Confrontation with Modernity
Chapter 2: Political Aspects of Heideggers Early Critique of Modern Technology
Chapter 3: Heidegger, National Socialism, and Modern Technology
Chapter 4: Junger and the Gestalt of the Worker
Chapter 5: Heideggers Appropriation of Jungers Thought, 1933-34
Chapter 6: Jungers Thought in Heideggers Mature Concept of Technology
Chapter 7: National Socialism, Nietzsche, and the Work of Art
Chapter 8: Holderlin and the Saving Power of Art

Divison Two Heideggers Critique of Productionist Metaphysics

Chapter 9: Equipment, Work, World, and Being
Chapter 10: Being and Time: Penultimate Stage of Productionist Metaphysics?
Chapter 11: The History of Productionist Metaphysics
Chapter 12: Production Cycles of thelã&