Ruse of Techne

Dimitris Vardoulakis is Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism (2020); Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (2018); Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter (2016); Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013); and The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy (2010).

• Exordium xiiiPreamble: The Ineffectual and the Instrumental 11. The ineffectual 12. The instrumental 41 Introduction: What is the Ruse of Techne? 103. The ruse of techne 104. Metaphysical materialism (the metaphysics of morals) 145. The reception of Heidegger and the ruse of techne 166. The repression of instrumentality 317. The underground current of a materialism of instrumentality 358. Effects of the ruse of techne (or, why the repression of instrumentality still matters today) 399. On method 422 The Problematic of Action Within a Single, Unified Being: Monism in Heidegger's Thought 4410. Heidegger's other path 4411. The first problem: How to be a different materialist? 4712. The second problem: How is action possible within a monist ontology? 5213. The third problem: Can monism provide qualitative distinctions between actions? 5514. Two kinds of monist materialism 5715. Two historical difficulties arising from Heidegger's solution to the problematic of action in monism 6116. The double bind of the repression of instrumentality: Between the vacuous and the self-contradictory 6617. Why Heidegger's solution to the problematic of action in monism matters 723 The Conflation of Causality and Instrumentality: Phronesis and the Genesis of the Ruse of Techne 7618. Heidegger's bildungsroman 7619. The truth of phronesis as the combination of calculation, emotion, and situatedness 7920. The two ends of action in Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics 1139a32) 8221. Techne and phronesis distinguished through their ends 8622. The distinction between final and instrumental ends and the problematic of action in monism 9023. A Greek-hating philhellene 9124. The context of Heidegger's interpretation of phronesis 9425. Heidegger's mistranslations of the hou heneka 9826. Heidegger's discussion of hou heneka and heneka tinos: The repression of instrumentality 10127. The genesis of the ruse of techne: sophia as the virtue of techne 105 ■28. Teleocracy 11229. Phronesis, resoluteness, and temporality: The "either/or" 115Excursus: Through the Looking Glass of the Distinction Between Causality and Instrumentality 11930. Acting and the other: The politics of instrumentality 11931. The repression of instrumentality in metaphysics 12632. Causal and instrumental ends in monist materialism 1334 The Concealment of Instrumentality: The Conception of Action in Being and Time 14433. The reason for focusing on the examples of action in Being and Time 14434. The epigraph and the problem of action in the Sophist 14635. Destruction and monism 14936. Inauthentic, indifferent, and authentic action 15137. Hammering and the concealing of instrumentality (Being and Time §15) 15538. The breakdown of ends (Being and Time §16) 16039. Sign and reference, understanding and interpretation (Being and Time §17) 16440. Dictatorship 16941. The temporality of death and the myth of Care 17242. Techne as the virtue of theory 17643. Subjectum absconditum 1845 The Ontology of Conflict: Conjuring Authority 18644. The "turn" and action 18645. Authority as the means to repress instrumentality 18946. Conflict and the three senses of techne 19347. The subjectivism of authority (Prometheus) 19648. The problem of the metaphysico-political conflict 20249. The historical decision and phusis (Oedipus Rex) 20450. Apolis and the spontaneous creation of authority (Antigone 1) 20851. The human as deinon and the repression of instrumentality (Antigone 2) 21352. A politics without reaction or an agonistic politics 21953. The preservers and the magical founding of the city 2226 The Ontology of the Ineffectual: The Purloined Letter of Instrumentality 22954. The reversal of the critique of monism 22955. The turn, the return, and the other turn (the critique of Sartre as self-critique) 23456. Transformations of the ruse of techne 23857. Instrumentality incorporated into causality (the first sense of techne) 23958. The ambivalence of the calculable and enframing (the second sense of techne) 24459. The killing power of the saving power (the third sense of techne) 24860. Metaphysical or materialist monism? 25261. The French appropriation of the repression of instrumentality 25662. The new Kantianism 26063. Technophobia and the repression of instrumentality 26364. The paradox of the final end 266Peroratio 272Acknowledgments 279Works by Martin Heidegger 283Bibliography 287Index 301