Tool Being

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812697731
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tool-Being written by Graham Harman and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tool-Being offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger's famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger's legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy. Every reader of Being and Time is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and presence-at-hand (Vorhandenheit), but commentators usually follow Heidegger's wishes in giving this distinction a limited scope, as if it applied only to tools in a narrow sense. Graham Harman contests Heidegger's own interpretation of tool-being, arguing that the opposition between tool and broken tool is not merely a provisional stage in his philosophy, but rather its living core. The extended concept of tool-being developed here leads us not to a theory of human practical activity but to an ontology of objects themselves. Tool-Being urges a fresh and concrete research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a lively and colorful style, it will be of great interest to anyone intrigued by Heidegger and anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812694449
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tool-Being written by Graham Harman and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, the author explains Heidegger's famous tool-analysis and then extends it beyond Heidegger's narrower theory of human practical activity to create an ontology of objects themselves. A welcome alternative to the linguistic turn that has dominated recent analytic and Continental philosophy, Tool-Being urges a fresh and concrete exploration into the secret contours of objects. Written in a lively and colorful style, it will be of interest to anyone open to new trends in contemporary philosophy.

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812697480
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heidegger Explained written by Graham Harman and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger Explained is a clear and thorough summary of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). It gives a fascinating explanation of all stages of Heidegger’s life and career, and shows his entire philosophy to emerge from one simple but profound insight. Many philosophers believe that Heidegger was the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. His influence has long been felt not just in philosophy, but also in such fields as art, architecture, and literary studies. Yet the great difficulty of Heidegger’s terminology has often scared away interested readers lacking an academic background in philosophy. Author Graham Harman shows that Heidegger is actually one of the simplest and clearest of thinkers. All the diverse topics of his writings, and all the lengthy analyses he gives of past philosophers, boil down to a single powerful idea: being is not presence. In any human relation with the world, our thinking and even our acting do not fully exhaust the world. Something more always withdraws from our grasp. Neither being itself nor individual beings are ever fully “present-at-hand,” in Heidegger’s terminology. This single insight allows Heidegger to revolutionize the phenomenology of his teacher Edmund Husserl. The method of Husserl was to focus entirely on how things present themselves to us as phenomena in consciousness. Heidegger understood that the things are always partly hidden from consciousness, living a secret life of their own. Human beings are not lucid scientific observers staring at the world and describing it, but instead are thrown into a world where light is always mixed with shadow. For Heidegger, the entire history of philosophy has reduced being to some sort of presence, whether by defining it as atoms, consciousness, perfect forms, the will to power, or even God. In this way, past philosophers have all chosen one specific kind of privileged being to represent being itself. Yet this is impossible, since being always partly withdraws from any attempt to define it. For this reason, philosophy needs to make a new beginning, one that would be just as great as the first beginning in ancient Greece. The book ends by shedding new light on Heidegger’s concept of the fourfold, which is so notoriously difficult that most commentators avoid it altogether.

Author : Micah Davis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974283927
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Monsters written by Micah Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our differences are what make the world a beautiful place. Diversity brings us together. Being Monsters encourages and empowers young children to see the best in themselves. Monsters aren't always scary; they are just simply unique. Even in a world of people from diverse backgrounds, races, cultures, and personalities, we often find that we are more similar than we are different. New author Micah Davis illustrates a fun, yet thought provoking children's book on character that promotes self-confidence, diversity, and courage as we all strive to live, interact, and appreciate the world of people we call family. Children will smile and enjoy this book as they meet six little monsters, who individually strive to make their mark in the world!

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Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Author : Graham Allcott
Publisher : Productivity Ninja
ISBN 13 : 9781785784613
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Productivity Ninja written by Graham Allcott and published by Productivity Ninja. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's businessbible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time on your phone? Scroll throughTwitter or Instagram when you should be getting down to your real tasks? Isyour attention easily distracted? We've got the solution: The Way of theProductivity Ninja. In the age of information overload, traditional timemanagement techniquessimply don't cut it anymore. Using techniques includingRuthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage, this fullyrevised new edition of How to be a Productivity Ninjaoffers a fun andaccessible guide to working smarter, getting more done and learning to love whatyou do again.

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812697723
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guerrilla Metaphysics written by Graham Harman and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Guerrilla Metaphysics, Graham Harman develops further the object-oriented philosophy first proposed in Tool-Being. Today’s fashionable philosophies often treat metaphysics as a petrified relic of the past, and hold that future progress requires an ever further abandonment of all claims to discuss reality in itself. Guerrilla Metaphysics makes the opposite assertion, challenging the dominant "philosophy of access" (both continental and analytic) that remains quarantined in discussions of language, perception, or literary texts. Philosophy needs a fresh resurgence of the things themselves—not merely the words or appearances themselves. Once these themes are adapted to the needs of an object-oriented philosophy, what emerges is a brand new type of metaphysics—a "guerrilla metaphysics."

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426777
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being and Time written by Martin Heidegger and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, definitive translation of Heidegger's most important work.

Author : Emily Thompson
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762490454
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Boss written by Emily Thompson and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts of the top-ranked podcast Being Boss, where they talk shop and share their combined expertise with other creative entrepreneurs. Now they take the best of their from-the- trenches advice, giving you targeted guidance on: The Boss Mindset: how to weed out distractions, cultivate confidence, and tackle "fraudy feelings" Boss Habits: including a tested method for visually mapping out goals with magical results Boss Money: how to stop freaking out about finances and sell yourself (without shame) With worksheets, checklists, and other real tools for achieving success, here's a guide that will truly help you "be boss" not only at growing your business, but creating a life you love.

Author : Tom Sparrow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748684859
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book End of Phenomenology written by Tom Sparrow and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how speculative realism is replacing phenomenology as the beacon of realism in contemporary Continental philosophy.