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Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology Professor Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA)

Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology By Professor Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA)

Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology by Professor Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA)


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Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory by Professor Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA)

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.

Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology Reviews

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. * Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of Vienna, Austria *
Gunther Anders's philosophy of technology, developed across seven decades, provides uniquely pragmatic resources with which to think the technological present. Babette Babich vividly captures and expansively surveys the potential of Anders's vast body of work, which viscerally exposes the ongoing and accelerating transformation, production, augmentation, and devaluation of the human. * Christopher John Muller, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Media, Macquaire University, Australia *
[A] wide ranging and provocative new book ... Babich's analytic skills are excellent and she has a deep understanding of the academic rigour needed to reflect on the nature of research on Anders in the discipline of the philosophy of science in contemporary literature. * Avello Publishing Journal *

About Professor Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA)

Babette Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, USA. She is author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science (1994) The Hallelujah Effect (2016)

Table of Contents

acknowledgements preface Introduction Part One: A Critical Theory of Technology 1. Criticizing Technology 2. Anders and Heidegger: Heidegger's Authenticity and Gunther Anders' Neg-Anthropology 3. Gunther 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: Genocide 6. Anders' Capuchin, Virilio's Chimeras, Agamben's 'Man Without Properties' Part Two: Anders, Media, Music 7. Radio Ghosts 8. Being-in-Music 9. Transistor Radios and Media UEberveillance 10. Pop Culture: Music Reviews, Radio Covers, and Copies Part Three: Schizotopic Thought: Planetarism and Apocalypse Blindness 11. Political Media Theory, Hiroshima, and Nuclear Powerplants 12. 'The Devil's New Apartment' bibliography index

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NLS9781350228627
9781350228627
1350228621
Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory by Professor Babette Babich (Fordham University, USA)
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-04-20
320
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