Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts

This highly accessible reading of Heidegger's work on technology, art, and ethics provides unique angles on specific works of modern art and architecture. Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia. The relationships between Heidegger's philosophical analyses of technology, art, and ethics are clearly articulated and connected in a framework for analyzing the modern human condition.

Anthony Lack is Associate Professor and Program Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Jefferson College of Health Sciences, USA.