Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence
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Beschreibung
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 about the danger which technology poses to us on a daily basis. In this regard, addiction ceases to be merely a clinical malady, and instead becomes a “signpost” to exposing a hidden danger posed by the assimilation of our culture within a technological framework.
Applies the phenomenological method to show how technology transforms our culture of immediate gratificationTakes a philosophical approach to a personal and social crisis
Provides a unique inroad to understanding and appropriating Heidegger’s thinking
Is written for an interdisciplinary audience in psychiatry, phenomenological psychology, and health-care
Applies the phenomenological method to show how technology transforms our culture of immediate gratification Takes a philosophical approach to a personal and social crisis Provides a unique inroad to understanding and appropriating Heidegger’s thinking Is written for an interdisciplinary audience in psychiatry, phenomenological psychology, and health-care
Autor*in
Frank Schalow
Themen in »Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence«
Addictive Practices and Dissociative Personality Authenticity and Ownedness Fetish-like Attraction and Compulsion Globalization and Commodification Hermeneutic Phenomenology Martin Heidegger Selfhood and Self-Identity Technology and Machination Temporality and Time-space Twelve Step Program and Bill Wilson
Stimmen zu »Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence«
“Frank Schalow’s new book, Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction, offers an important contribution to the philosophical study of addiction. … Schalow succeeds in this work in knitting together a host of phenomenological themes around the topic of addiction … . Its successes make this book a considerable step in the phenomenological and existential analysis of addiction, and no doubt it will prove an important study for anyone interested in this topic.” (Peter Antich, Phenomenological Reviews, reviews.ophen.org, March, 2018)
“Frank Schalow’s Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence enhances and enlarges our understanding of the problem of addiction as a problem of existence, aproblem in living, a problem in “how to be.”… This courageous work will prove to be an innovative addition to the literature on addiction. It will serve as an invaluable resource for those who work in the field of addiction—especially for those who use experience-near therapeutic approaches that are incipiently phenomenological.” (Mufid James Hannush, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Vol. 49, 2018)
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