Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvBabette Babich,USA) Babich, Professor Babette (Fordham University

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Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunther Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman condition which have become so central to current theory. Babette Babich argues that Anders offers important resources on streaming digital media through his writings on radio, television and film and is, unusually, both a comprehensive and profound thinker. Anders' relationship with key philosophers like Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin and his thinking on Goethe, Nietzsche and Rilke is also explored with a focus on the deep impact he made on his peers. It reflects specifically on the intersection of Anders’ thought Heidegger and the Frankfurt school and how influential a figure he was on the landscape of 20th century philosophy. A compelling rehabilitation of a thinker with profound contemporary relevance.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-20
Mått154 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350228627

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acknowledgementsprefaceIntroductionPart One: A Critical Theory of Technology1. Criticizing Technology 2. Anders and Heidegger: Heidegger’s Authenticity and Günther Anders’ Neg-Anthropology 3. Günther Anders and Hannah Arendt: Rilke and Cherries, Politics and Love 4. Between the Lines: Benjamin’s Angels of History and Anders’ Apocalypse 5. Anders and Adorno: Genocide6. Anders’ Capuchin, Virilio’s Chimeras, Agamben’s ‘Man Without Properties’Part Two: Anders, Media, Music7. Radio Ghosts8. Being-in-Music9. Transistor Radios and Media Überveillance 10. Pop Culture: Music Reviews, Radio Covers, and Copies Part Three: Schizotopic Thought: Planetarism and Apocalypse Blindness11. Political Media Theory, Hiroshima, and Nuclear Powerplants12. ‘The Devil’s New Apartment’bibliographyindex

A long overdue and timely study that brings out Anders’ significance for philosophy of technology and media in a way that connects him not only with Heidegger but also with Arendt, Benjamin, Adorno, and Agamben. Babette Babich’s erudite (re)mix of histories of ideas and thinkers contributes to a rehabilitation of Anders that shows his significance for phenomenology, critical theory, aesthetics, and indeed thinking about technology and media. The author shows that Anders already criticized the idea that technology is neutral and offers an interpretation of Anders’s Promethean shame thesis that stresses our responsibility for what our technologies do to the planet. An authoritative work that opens up the interesting perspective of an Anders-inspired critical theory of technology and shows the continuing relevance of the ghosts and musings of 20th century thinking for today’s world of social media and big data.