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This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of “addiction,” presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament. The book introduces phenomenological motifs, such as desire, embodiment, and temporality, to uncover the existential roots of addiction, and develops Martin Heidegger’s insights into technology to uncover the challenge of becoming a self within the impulsiveness and depersonalization of our digital age. By charting a new path of philosophical inquiry,the book allows a pervasive, cultural phenomenon, ordinarily reserved to psychology, to speak as a referendum about the danger which technology poses to us on a daily basis. In this regard, addiction ceases to be merely a clinical malady, and instead becomes a “signpost” to exposing a hidden danger posed by the assimilation of our culture within a technological framework.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66942-7

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Seeking a philosophical perspective

Schalow Frank

3-23

Everydayness and the "norm" of addictive practices

Schalow Frank

25-45

The phenomenon of the body and the "hook" of addiction

Schalow Frank

47-68

Confronting the forces of self-deception

Schalow Frank

69-87

Technology and the rise of the artifice

Schalow Frank

89-113

From theology to therapy

Schalow Frank

117-141

In search of a new discourse

Schalow Frank

143-159

From excess to economy

Schalow Frank

161-177