Modernity and destining of technological being: beyond Heidegger's critique of technology to responsible and reflexive technology

Cover
 Table of Contents
 Some Abbreviations Used
 General Introduction
 Beyond Heidegger
 Structural Analysis
 Section One The Reality of Being: Heidegger\'s Fundamental Ontology
 Chapter I: Experience of Being: Dasein\'s Being-in-the-World
 Introduction
 1. The Question of Being
 1.1. Aristotle: The Metaphysical Question
 1.2. Heidegger and the Question of Being
 1.2.1. Priority of Dasein over being and entities
 1.3. The Nature of Dasein as Being-in-the-World
 1.3.1. Meaning of Dasein\'s \'Being-in\' (In-Sein)
 1.3.2. \"Moodness\" (Befindlichkeit) 1.3.3. Understanding, Interpretation and Assertion1.4. The World
 1.4.1. Dasein and World
 1.4.2. The Worldhood of the World (The Environmental World of Dasein)
 1.4.3. The Communal World of Dasein
 1.4.3a. \"Being-With\"
 1.4.3b. Modes of Dasein\'s Being-with (Early Critique of Modernity)
 Concluding Remarks
 Chapter II: Heidegger\'s Search for the Truth of Being
 2. Attaining the Experience of Being 
 Introduction
 2.1. The Way: Greek Origin
 2.2. The \'Turn\' (Kehre)
 2.3. The Essential/Meditative Thinking of Being
 2.3.1. Dwelling in the Nearness of Being (Dwelling Thinking) 2.3.1a. The \'Thing\' and the \'Fourfold\'2.3.1b. Poetic Dwelling
 2.4. Seeing the Truth of Being
 2.4.1. Dasein and Aletheia
 2.4.2. Language: The house of Being
 2.4.3. Man: The Shepherd of Being
 2.4.4. Ereignis: The Event of Appropriation
 2.4.4.a. Features of Ereignis
 2.5. Levinas\' Critique of Heidegger\'s Project: Ontology vs Ethics
 2.5.1. Phenomenology
 2.5.2. Levinas\' Critique of Heidegger
 2.5.2.a. On the Question of Being and Ontology
 2.5.2.b. On the Question of Ethics and Responsibility
 2.5.3. Ontological Priority of Ethics
 2.5.3.a. Ethical \'Metaphysics\': The Other 2.5.3.b. Elemental Objects as \"Subordinated\" to Enjoyment2.5.4. Ethical Subjectivity (Ipseity)
 2.5.5. The Ontological Priority of Ethical Responsibility
 Concluding Remarks
 Section Two Towards Unmaking of Metaphysics and Questioning Technology
 Chapter III: The Age of Technological Being and Emergence of Subjectivity
 Introduction
 3. The Question and Meaning of Modernity
 3.1. Medieval Background
 3.2. The Nature of Modernity
 3.2.1. Cartesian Doubt and Reformulation of Metaphysics
 3.2.2. Mathematical Demonstration and Deduction
 3.2.3. The Primacy of Consciousness (Subjectivity) 3.3. Heidegger\'s Approach / Critique of Western Metaphysics3.3.1. Heidegger\'s Critique of Descartes\' Project
 3.3.2. On Mathematics
 3.4. Towards the Unmaking of Metaphysics
 3.4.1. Metaphysics
 3.4.2. Overcoming of Metaphysics
 Concluding Remarks
 Chapter IV: Heidegger, Technology, and Human Destiny
 Introduction
 4.1. Towards a Definition of Technology
 4.2. Counter-Productivity of Modern Technology
 4.3. Trajectories in the Philosophy of Technology
 4.3.1. Existential Perspective 
 a) Romano Guardini (1885-1968)
 Role of Christianity
 b) Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)