Richard Rojcewicz 
The Gods and Technology [PDF ebook] 
A Reading of Heidegger

Preface
Introduction

Part I. Ancient Technology

The four causes as obligations, as making ready the ground
The so-called efficient cause in Aristotle
Abetting causality as a reading of Heidegger
Letting, active letting, letting all the way to the end
Producing, bringing-forth, nature
Manufacture and contemplation
Bringing-forth as disconcealment
Disclosive looking
Technology and truth
The Greek concept of techne
Ancient technological practice as poiesis

Part II. Modern Technology

Ancient versus modern technology
Modern technology as a challenging: the gear and the capacitor
Modern technology as an imposition
Modern technology as a ravishment
Modern technology as a disposing
‘Disposables’
Ge-stell, the ‘all-encompassing imposition’
The essence of modern technology as nothing technological
Science as harbinger
Science as mediator
Causality; modern physics
The novelty of modern technology

Part III. The Danger in Modern Technology

Asking about and asking for
Sent destiny, history, chronology
Freedom
Hastening
Doom
The danger
The highest danger
The occultation of poiesis
That which might save
The sense of essence
Enduring
Bestowal
The essence as something bestowed
Bestowal as what might save
The mystery
The constellation
Transition to the question of art

Part IV. Art

(Metaphysical) aesthetics versus (ontological) philosophy of art
Art as most properly poetry
Art and the history of Being
Art and technology
Questioning

Part V. Detachment

Contemplation; Detachment (Gelassenheit)
Openness to the mystery, autochthony, lasting human works
Conclusion: phenomenology; improvisation on the piety in art

Notes
Cited Works of Heidegger
Bibliography of Major Secondary Studies
Index

Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosophy at Point Park University. He is the cotranslator (with André Schuwer) of three volumes of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe: Parmenides (GA 54), Basic Questions of Philosophy (GA 45), and Plato’s Sophist (GA 19) and the translator of Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle (GA 61). He is also the translator of two volumes of Husserliana, Husserl’s collected works: Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Second Book (Hua 4; cotranslated with André Schuwer) and Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907 (Hua 16).