Heideggers Philosophie der Medialität

Abstract

This book does not claim to etch into relief a media philosophy from Heidegger's thinking in addition to the various philosophies of language, technology, art or science already extant. Rather, its claim is a fundamental one: to show that this thinking – even if this is admittedly not immediately apparent on the surface of its terminology – is itself a philosophy of mediality, establishing its own approach to media philosophy. Setting out from an interpretation of being as mediality, the author first undertakes a comprehensive reconstruction of Heidegger's philosophy in order to subsequently relate it to basic questions of media philosophy and the anthropology of technology. The result is not only a fresh view that questions established modes of reception and lends Heidegger's thinking a new, unexpected plausibility, but in particular a theoretical basis for a critical examination of the media-technological dispositives and dynamics of the 21st century.