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(2014) Martin Heidegger on technology, ecology, and the arts, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The central issue is the question of Being. Heidegger's principal intention is to reawaken the Western world to what he feels has been lost in the history of Western metaphysics. In Heidegger's interpretation, Being, a process of dynamic emergence, equated with the life force in all primitive societies, was converted by western philosophers into a transcendent Form, a substance, or a God. As a consequence, philosophy as thinking disappears behind the engineering of increasingly elaborate metaphysical systems that lead us to forget the mystery of Being. Heidegger proposes that we go back to a point in the history of ideas where the thinking of Being involved a relation to a dynamic process, rather than the erection of metaphysical scaffolding.
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Lack, A. (2014). An introduction to Heidegger's philosophy, in Martin Heidegger on technology, ecology, and the arts, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 8-22.
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