Frank Schalow

Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence

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This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of addiction, presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament. The book introduces phenomenological motifs, such as desire, embodiment, and temporality, to uncover the existential roots of addiction, and develops Martin Heidegger's insights into technology to uncover the challenge of becoming a self within the impulsiveness and depersonalization of our digital age. By charting a new path of philosophical inquiry, the book allows a pervasive, cultural phenomenon, ordinarily reserved to psychology, to speak as a referendum… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-66942-7
EAN: 9783319669427
Produktnummer: 24418124
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 191 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'963 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Frank Schalow is Professor of Philosophy and University Research Professor at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred (Springer, 2001), and editor of Heidegger, Translation, and the Task of Thinking: Essays in Honor of Parvis Emad (Springer, 2011). Frank Schalow serves as co-editor of the international journal Heidegger Studies; in April, 2015, he received the Excellence in Research Award by the University Honors Program of the University of New Orleans.