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• Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denkens (1964) Martin Heidegger, 1964

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1964 (this version: GA 14, 2007 — Klostermann edition with Heidegger's marginalia from his Handexemplar) Type: essay (originally Heidegger's contribution to the UNESCO Paris colloquium "Kierkegaard vivant,…

• Dividuation

  Carbone's coinage (2016) for the condition of screen-mediated life: since "individual" etymologically means in-dividuus, "indivisible," the self that simultaneously lives in/through many screens and windows — playing many roles, maintainin…

• End of Philosophy (das Ende der Philosophie)

  Heidegger's late thesis: philosophy as metaphysics — from Plato through Hegel-Husserl-Nietzsche-Marx — has ended in the present age. The end is Vollendung, not cessation: a Versammlung in die äußerste Möglichkeit (gathering into outermost…

• Gilbert Simondon

  French philosopher (1924–1989) best known for his theory of individuation and for his rehabilitation of the philosophical significance of technical objects. On this wiki he matters primarily as the background figure behind dividuation (Car…

• Is Cybernetics the Same Philosophical Enemy for Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty?

  Short answer. Both clauses of the question are partly true, but the or is too strong. Cybernetics (in Heidegger 1964) and pensée opératoire (in Merleau-Ponty 1960–61) target the same structural phenomenon — the reduction of beings to manip…

• Kybernetik as Grundwissenschaft

  Heidegger's 1964 thesis: Cybernetics is the new Grundwissenschaft (fundamental science) that determines and steers the dispersed sciences in the completed-philosophy age. Locus classicus: "Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denke…

• Machenschaft

  Heidegger's name for the mode of Being in the completed epoch of metaphysics — the form Seiendheit (beingness) takes when the Vollendung has installed Seinsverlassenheit (abandonment by Being) as the prevailing condition. Machenschaft is n…

• Vollendung der Metaphysik

  Heidegger's name for what Nietzsche's thought is: not the overcoming of Western metaphysics but its completion. Vollendung is the most load-bearing thesis of the Nietzsche I lectures (1936-1939) and the operative frame for Heidegger's read…