Tool-Being Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects

by Harman, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780812694444
• ISBN10: 0812694449
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-14
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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