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Heidegger: Truth, Technology, and Poetry

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $315
  • 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions

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  • $315
  • BIFSR - Goethe Institut @ 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY 10003
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions
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What you'll learn in this philosophy class:

Sometime in the early 1930’s, Heidegger’s thought is supposed to have undergone a change. His philosophical project shifted from the “fundamental ontology” of his early work Being and Time—foundational to the development of wartime and post-war “existentialism”—to what he would come to describe as Seinsgeschichte—a “history of being.” Heidegger was interested in understanding how the meaning of being, what it means to be, has changed throughout time.

In particular, Heidegger was concerned with uncovering the meaning of being within modernity, an era rocked by scientific, industrial and technological revolutions, in which the “gods have flown” from us (to paraphrase his favorite poet Hölderlin). In Heidegger’s view, modern technology in particular has begun to narrow and even empty the possibilities of meaningful existence, eclipsing and stultifying the power of art and poetry to reveal truth and constitute meaning within culture.

This class will take up these claims by surveying the major texts of Heidegger’s later period, including “The Origin of the Work of Art,” “The Question Concerning Technology,” “The Age of the World Picture,” “Why Poets?,” “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” and “The Thing.”

Among the questions we’ll explore are: What is the essence of humanity itself within modernity? What is the nature of modern mathematical science and technology, and what kinds of truths can and do they reveal? What happens to the truths that art and poetry once promised in an age when scientific truth alone is predominant? And what, if anything, can offer us any place or power to hope in such “desperate times?”

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This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

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  • Upon request, we will refund less 5% cancellation fee of a course up until 6 business days before its start date.
  • Students who withdraw after that point but before the first class are entitled to 75% refund or full course credit.
  • After the first class: 50% refund or 75% course credit.
  • No refunds or credits will be given after the second class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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