1st Edition

Heidegger’s Concept of Philosophical Method Innovating Philosophy in the Age of Global Warming

By Vincent Blok Copyright 2020
324 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides new interpretations of Heidegger’s philosophical method in light of 20th-century postmodernism and 21st-century speculative realism. In doing so, it raises important questions about philosophical method in the age of global warming and climate change. Vincent Blok addresses topics that have yet to be extensively discussed in Heidegger scholarship, including Heidegger’s method... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Analysis

1. Philosophical Method as Hermeneutic Phenomenology

2. Philosophical Method as Questioning

3. Philosophical Method as "Religionized" Reason

4. Philosophical Method as Explorative Confrontation

Part II: Critique

5. Philosophical Method as Creative Voluntarism

6. Philosophical Method as Poetry

7. Philosophical Method as Earthbound Confrontation

Conclusion

Biography

Vincent Blok is associate professor in Philosophy of Technology, Business Ethics and Responsible Innovation, Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He holds a PhD in philosophy of technology from Leiden University. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge 2017). See www.vincentblok.nl for more information about his current research.