Exordium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Exordium xiii
4. Preamble
5. 1. The ineffectual 1
6. 2. The instrumental 4
7. 1 Introduction
8. 3. The ruse of techne 10
9. 4. Metaphysical materialism (the metaphysics of morals) 14
10. 5. The reception of Heidegger and the ruse of techne 16
11. 6. The repression of instrumentality 31
12. 7. The underground current of a materialism of instrumentality 35
13. 8. Effects of the ruse of techne (or, why the repression of instrumentality still matters today) 39
14. 9. On method 42
15. 2 The Problematic of Action Within a Single, Unified Being
16. 10. Heidegger’s other path 44
17. 11. The first problem: How to be a different materialist? 47
18. 12. The second problem: How is action possible within a monist ontology? 52
19. 13. The third problem: Can monism provide qualitative distinctions between actions? 55
20. 14. Two kinds of monist materialism 57
21. 15. Two historical difficulties arising from Heidegger’s solution to the problematic of action in monism 61
22. 16. The double bind of the repression of instrumentality: Between the vacuous and the self-contradictory 66
23. 17. Why Heidegger’s solution to the problematic of action in monism matters 72
24. 3 The Conflation of Causality and Instrumentality
25. 18. Heidegger’s bildungsroman 76
26. 19. The truth of phronesis as the combination of calculation, emotion, and situatedness 79
27. 20. The two ends of action in Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics 1139a32) 82
28. 21. Techne and phronesis distinguished through their ends 86
29. 22. The distinction between final and instrumental ends and the problematic of action in monism 90
30. 23. A Greek-hating philhellene 91
31. 24. The context of Heidegger’s interpretation of phronesis 94
32. 25. Heidegger’s mistranslations of the hou heneka 98
33. 26. Heidegger’s discussion of hou heneka and heneka tinos: The repression of instrumentality 101
34. 27. The genesis of the ruse of techne: sophia as the virtue of techne 105
35. 28. Teleocracy 112
36. 29. Phronesis, resoluteness, and temporality: The “either/or” 115
37. Excursus
38. 30. Acting and the other: The politics of instrumentality 119
39. 31. The repression of instrumentality in metaphysics 126
40. 32. Causal and instrumental ends in monist materialism 133
41. 4 The Concealment of Instrumentality
42. 33. The reason for focusing on the examples of action in Being and Time 144
43. 34. The epigraph and the problem of action in the Sophist 146
44. 35. Destruction and monism 149
45. 36. Inauthentic, indifferent, and authentic action 151
46. 37. Hammering and the concealing of instrumentality (Being and Time §15) 155
47. 38. The breakdown of ends (Being and Time §16) 160
48. 39. Sign and reference, understanding and interpretation (Being and Time §17) 164
49. 40. Dictatorship 169
50. 41. The temporality of death and the myth of Care 172
51. 42. Techne as the virtue of theory 176
52. 43. Subjectum absconditum 184
53. 5 The Ontology of Conflict
54. 44. The “turn” and action 186
55. 45. Authority as the means to repress instrumentality 189
56. 46. Conflict and the three senses of techne 193
57. 47. The subjectivism of authority (Prometheus) 196
58. 48. The problem of the metaphysico-political conflict 202
59. 49. The historical decision and phusis (Oedipus Rex) 204
60. 50. Apolis and the spontaneous creation of authority (Antigone 1) 208
61. 51. The human as deinon and the repression of instrumentality (Antigone 2) 213
62. 52. A politics without reaction or an agonistic politics 219
63. 53. The preservers and the magical founding of the city 222
64. 6 The Ontology of the Ineffectual
65. 54. The reversal of the critique of monism 229
66. 55. The turn, the return, and the other turn (the critique of Sartre as self-critique) 234
67. 56. Transformations of the ruse of techne 238
68. 57. Instrumentality incorporated into causality (the first sense of techne) 239
69. 58. The ambivalence of the calculable and enframing (the second sense of techne) 244
70. 59. The killing power of the saving power (the third sense of techne) 248
71. 60. Metaphysical or materialist monism? 252
72. 61. The French appropriation of the repression of instrumentality 256
73. 62. The new Kantianism 260
74. 63. Technophobia and the repression of instrumentality 263
75. 64. The paradox of the final end 266
76. Peroratio 272
77. Acknowledgments 279
78. Works by Martin Heidegger 283
79. Bibliography 287
80. Index 301