In a call to planetary thinking, planetary building, and planetary dwelling, Norman K. Swazo discusses Heidegger’s thought as it relates to issues of global politics, specifically, the domain of world order studies. In the first division of the book, Swazo provides a theoretical critique of world order studies understood in the two modes of normative and technocratic futurism. The book’s second division includes a preliminary attempt to clarify what Heidegger’s call for ‘essential thinking’ entails for political thinking. This signifies a new beginning for political discourse, heralded in the possibility of ‘essential political thinking’ that Swazo calls ‘autarchology.’
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: THEORETICAL CRITIQUE
1. Crisis Theory: The Challenge to Peace Research
2. The Problem of World Order: Overcoming the Logic of Statecraft
3. The Metaphysical Ground of World Order Thinking
4. Planetary Politics and the Essence of Technology
PART TWO: ESSENTIAL POLITICAL THINKING
5. A Pathway to Essential Political Thinking
6. The Essence of Political Being
Conclusion: Projecting-Open [Entwurf] with Heidegger
Notes
Index
Despre autor
Norman K. Swazo is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.