Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects

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Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) influenced the work of such diverse thinkers as Sartre and Derrida. In Tool-Being, Graham Harman departs from the prevailing linguistic approach to analytic and continental philosophy in favor of Heideggerian object-oriented research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a colorful style, it will be of interest to anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.
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Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) influenced the work of such diverse thinkers as Sartre and Derrida. In Tool-Being, Graham Harman departs from the prevailing linguistic approach to analytic and continental philosophy in favor of Heideggerian object-oriented research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a colorful style, it will be of interest to anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.
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Alphonso Lingis
Out of a far-reaching critique of Heidegger, Graham Harman constructs a new theory of objects---objects in their reality beyond the usess with which they present themselves to humans, beyond their relation to humans subjectivity, beyond their relations with one another. The rigor and penetration of his analyses and the astonishing power of his thought launch a new kind of philosophy. This book is bold, original, and important.
— Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780812694444
  • Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 9/1/2002
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 761,266
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader
Introduction 1
Ch. 1 The Tool and Its Reversal 13
1 The Invisible Realm 15
2 Reference 24
3 Equipment Is Global 35
4 Reversal: Broken Tools 44
5 Space 49
6 Theory 56
7 The As-Structure 68
8 A Second Axis 80
9 The Duel in Appearance 88
Ch. 2 Between Being and Time 101
10 Concerning Poiesis, Praxis 103
11 Not Pragmatism 114
12 The Being in Phenomena 127
13 The Threefold 141
14 Truth and Its Double 149
15 The Event 154
16 Language and the Thing 164
17 Technology 180
18 The Fourfold 190
19 The Specter of Realism 205
Ch. 3 Elements of an Object-Oriented Philosophy 217
20 Prehension 219
21 Contributions of Levinas 235
22 Contributions of Zubiri 243
23 Refining the Problem 252
24 Classical Milestones 268
25 Two Paradoxes 280
26 Tools in a Vacuum 288
Notes 297
Bibliography 315
Index 323
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