Heidegger's confrontation with modernity Book

Contents: 1. Germany's confrontation with modernity -- 2. Political aspects of Heidegger's early critique of modern technology -- 3. Heidegger, national socialism, and modern technology -- 4. Jünger and the Gestalt of the worker -- 5. Heidegger's appropriation of Jünger's thought, 1933-34 -- 6. Jünger's thought in Heidegger's mature concept of technology -- 7. National socialism, Nietzsche, and the work of art -- 8. Hölderlin and the saving power of art -- 9. Equipment, work, world, and being -- 10. Being and Time : penultimate stage of productionist metaphysics? -- 12. Production cycles of the "laboring animal" : a manifestation of the will to will -- 13. How modern technology transforms the everyday world-and points to a new one -- 14. Authentic production : Techne as the art of ontological disclosure -- Conclusion : Critical reflections on Heidegger's concept of modern technology.