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Existence and Machine

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45366-8

ISBN: 978-3-319-45365-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 22, 2016

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Epistemological Premise: The Promethean Protocol

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 1 –10

[In this chapter are discussed: (a) The basilar concept of promethean protocol as succession of steps – obtaining the raw material, softening, modelling, firing, refining and firing again – clearly form a sequence in which none of the single stages can change places without partly or wholly...
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Karl Marx – From Hand Tool to Machine Tool

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 11 –20

[In this chapter is presented the analysis that Marx leads about the transition from the mere tool (Handwerk) to the machninery (Maschinerie). According to Marx the consequences of this transfer of the manual implement from man to machine are: (a) the machine becomes the active, super powerful,...
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Ernst Kapp – Organ Projection

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 21 –27

[In this chapter is discussed the important theory expressed by Kapp in the work Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik (1877). In his vision Kapp supports the idea that mankind was the engine principle of history and culture, who used technics to submit the world in the process to...
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Ernst Jünger and Friedrich Georg Jünger – Dominion and Machine

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 29 –39

[In this chapter are confronted the different visions of the machine in the work of Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger. By Ernst Jünger we analyzes: (a) the concept of total mobilization (Die Totale Mobilmachung). With this notion Jünger means that real process which, thanks to the development of...
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Martin Heidegger – Machine and Truth

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 41 –46

[In this chapter are interpreted certain passages of Heidegger’s essay Die Frage nach der Technik. Special attention is given to the concept of enframing (Gestell). In our reading this term refer to mechanical supporting structures, i.e. to devices that are not particularly complex, but they...
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Arnold Gehlen – Inadequacy and Technology

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 47 –54

[In this chapter is discussed the “basic anthropology” of Arnold Gehlen. In this author the idea of the machine is connected to: (a) the concept of Mangel, which expresses not the mere absence of something, but a more complex condition of poverty and inadequacy. The organic deficiency relates to...
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Günther Anders – Shame and Apparatus

Grigenti, Fabio

Pages: 55 –63

[In this chapter is presented the pessimistic diagnosis of Gunther Anders about the world dominated by technology. Anders observes: (a) the diffusion of a new sentiment amongst human beings, occurring in parallel with a frighteningly rapid rise in techno-science. He describes this different...

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