{"product_id":"the-ruse-of-techne-heideggers-magical-materialism-paperback-softback-9781531506759","title":"The Ruse of Techne; Heidegger's Magical Materialism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531506759","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ruse of Techne\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHeidegger's Magical Materialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDimitris Vardoulakis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531506759\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ruse of Techne\u003c\/i\u003e offers a reappraisal of Heidegger's entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking—in short, the ineffectual—are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to the truth of being throughout his work.\u003cbr\u003e By unearthing the source of the conception of non-instrumental action in Heidegger's reading of Aristotle, Vardoulakis elaborates how it forms part of Heidegger's response to an old problem, namely, how to account for difference after positing a single and unified being that is not amenable to change. He further demonstrates that an action without ends and effects leads to an ethics and politics rife with difficulties and contradictions that only become starker when compared to other responses to the same problem that we find in the philosophical tradition and which rely on instrumentality.\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger's conception of an action without ends or effect forgets the role of instrumentality in the tradition that posits a single, unified being. And yet, the ineffectual has had a profound influence in how continental philosophy determines the ethical and the political since World War II. The critique of the ineffectual in Heidegger is thus effectively a critique of the conception of praxis in continental philosophy. Vardoulakis proposes that it is urgent to undo the forgetting of instrumentality if we are to conceive of a democratic politics and an ethics fit to respond to the challenges of high capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExordium \u003c\/b\u003e  xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreamble: The Ineffectual and the Instrumental\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The ineffectual   1\u003cbr\u003e 2. The instrumental   4\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 Introduction: What is the Ruse of Techne?\u003c\/b\u003e   10\u003cbr\u003e 3. The ruse of techne   10\u003cbr\u003e 4. Metaphysical materialism (the metaphysics of morals)  14\u003cbr\u003e 5. The reception of Heidegger and the ruse of techne   16\u003cbr\u003e 6. The repression of instrumentality   31\u003cbr\u003e 7. The underground current of a materialism of instrumentality   35\u003cbr\u003e 8. Effects of the ruse of techne (or, why the repression of instrumentality still matters today)   39\u003cbr\u003e 9. On method   42\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 The Problematic of Action Within a Single, Unified Being: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonism in Heidegger's Thought \u003c\/b\u003e  44\u003cbr\u003e 10. Heidegger's other path   44\u003cbr\u003e 11. The first problem: How to be a different materialist?   47\u003cbr\u003e 12. The second problem: How is action possible within a monist ontology?   52\u003cbr\u003e 13. The third problem: Can monism provide qualitative distinctions between actions?   55\u003cbr\u003e 14. Two kinds of monist materialism   57\u003cbr\u003e 15. Two historical difficulties arising from Heidegger's solution to the problematic of action in monism   61\u003cbr\u003e 16. The double bind of the repression of instrumentality: Between the vacuous and the self-contradictory   66\u003cbr\u003e 17. Why Heidegger's solution to the problematic of action in monism matters   72\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 The Conflation of Causality and Instrumentality: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhronesis and the Genesis of the Ruse of Techne\u003c\/b\u003e   76\u003cbr\u003e 18. Heidegger's bildungsroman   76\u003cbr\u003e 19. The truth of phronesis as the combination of calculation, emotion, and situatedness   79\u003cbr\u003e 20. The two ends of action in Aristotle (\u003ci\u003eNicomachean Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e 1139a32)   82\u003cbr\u003e 21. Techne and phronesis distinguished through their ends   86\u003cbr\u003e 22. The distinction between final and instrumental ends and the problematic of action in monism   90\u003cbr\u003e 23. A Greek-hating philhellene   91\u003cbr\u003e 24. The context of Heidegger's interpretation of phronesis   94\u003cbr\u003e 25. Heidegger's mistranslations of the \u003ci\u003ehou heneka  \u003c\/i\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e 26. Heidegger's discussion of \u003ci\u003ehou heneka \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eheneka tinos\u003c\/i\u003e: The repression of instrumentality   101\u003cbr\u003e 27. The genesis of the ruse of techne: sophia as the virtue of techne   105 ■\u003cbr\u003e 28. Teleocracy   112\u003cbr\u003e 29. Phronesis, resoluteness, and temporality: The \"either\/or\"   115\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eExcursus: Through the Looking Glass of the Distinction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetween Causality and Instrumentality\u003c\/b\u003e   119\u003cbr\u003e 30. Acting and the other: The politics of instrumentality   119\u003cbr\u003e 31. The repression of instrumentality in metaphysics   126\u003cbr\u003e 32. Causal and instrumental ends in monist materialism   133\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 The Concealment of Instrumentality: The Conception of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAction in Being and Time\u003c\/b\u003e   144\u003cbr\u003e 33. The reason for focusing on the examples of action in B\u003ci\u003eeing and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e   144\u003cbr\u003e 34. The epigraph and the problem of action in the Sophist   146\u003cbr\u003e 35. Destruction and monism   149\u003cbr\u003e 36. Inauthentic, indifferent, and authentic action   151\u003cbr\u003e 37. Hammering and the concealing of instrumentality (\u003ci\u003eBeing and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e §15)   155\u003cbr\u003e 38. The breakdown of ends (\u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e §16)   160\u003cbr\u003e 39. Sign and reference, understanding and interpretation (\u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e §17)   164\u003cbr\u003e 40. Dictatorship   169\u003cbr\u003e 41. The temporality of death and the myth of Care   172\u003cbr\u003e 42. Techne as the virtue of theory   176\u003cbr\u003e 43. Subjectum absconditum   184\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 The Ontology of Conflict: Conjuring Authority\u003c\/b\u003e   186\u003cbr\u003e 44. The \"turn\" and action   186\u003cbr\u003e 45. Authority as the means to repress instrumentality   189\u003cbr\u003e 46. Conflict and the three senses of techne   193\u003cbr\u003e 47. The subjectivism of authority (\u003ci\u003ePrometheus\u003c\/i\u003e)   196\u003cbr\u003e 48. The problem of the metaphysico-political conflict   202\u003cbr\u003e 49. The historical decision and phusis (\u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/i\u003e)   204\u003cbr\u003e 50. Apolis and the spontaneous creation of authority (\u003ci\u003eAntigone \u003c\/i\u003e1)   208\u003cbr\u003e 51. The human as deinon and the repression of instrumentality (\u003ci\u003eAntigone \u003c\/i\u003e2)   213\u003cbr\u003e 52. A politics without reaction or an agonistic politics   219\u003cbr\u003e 53. The preservers and the magical founding of the city   222\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 The Ontology of the Ineffectual: The Purloined Letter \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof Instrumentality\u003c\/b\u003e   229\u003cbr\u003e 54. The reversal of the critique of monism   229\u003cbr\u003e 55. The turn, the return, and the other turn (the critique of Sartre as self-critique)   234\u003cbr\u003e 56. Transformations of the ruse of techne   238\u003cbr\u003e 57. Instrumentality incorporated into causality (the first sense of techne)   239\u003cbr\u003e 58. The ambivalence of the calculable and enframing (the second sense of techne)   244\u003cbr\u003e 59. The killing power of the saving power (the third sense of techne)   248\u003cbr\u003e 60. Metaphysical or materialist monism?   252\u003cbr\u003e 61. The French appropriation of the repression of instrumentality   256\u003cbr\u003e 62. The new Kantianism   260\u003cbr\u003e 63. Technophobia and the repression of instrumentality   263\u003cbr\u003e 64. The paradox of the final end   266\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeroratio \u003c\/b\u003e  272\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorks by Martin Heidegger\u003c\/i\u003e   283\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  301\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670841946392,"sku":"9781531506759","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ruse-of-techne-heideggers-magical-materialism-paperback-softback-9781531506759","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}