Artist-philosopher in the Age of Addiction : Heidegger’s Climatology, Hardcov...

by George Smith

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Artist-philosopher in the Age of Addiction : Heidegger’s Climatology, Hardcover by Smith, George, ISBN 103255732X, ISBN-13 9781032557328, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "George Smith argues that modern humanity suffers from a late-stage, pre-fatal addiction to scientific-technological thinking. Like most pre-fatal addictions, this one will most likely result in one of three ways: misery, extinction, or human transformation. The question remains, wherein lies the third way? According to Smith, mankind's chronic and as yet undiagnosed sickness originates in early Western metaphysics and has long been thoroughly globalized. It explains unstoppable extractionism and its relentlessly increasing by-product, carbon dioxide. It also explains today's ever-increasing rate of species extinction, and it explains the increasingly likely collapse of the biosphere. Citing climate change tolerance and denial as symptomatic of pre-fataladdiction, Smith turns his analysis to Heidegger's "question concerning technology" and shows that even Heidegger had become "hooked" on scientific-technological thinking. Surrendering to his disease, Heidegger "steps back" into "meditative thought." This in turn opens Heidegger to an East-West mode of scientific-poetic consciousness, the thinking of artist-philosophers such as Laozi, Hèolderlin, and Rachel Carson. For Heidegger, this way of thinking lays the path to mankind's transformative emancipationfrom an otherwise inescapable catastrophe. Th will

• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Year: 2025
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781032557328
• Condition: Fine

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