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2022

"The silence of the educated." Journal of Silence Studies in Education 2, no. 1: 43–55. External Peer-reviewed DOI PhilArchive

Martin HeideggerContinental Philosophyliving philosophypraxisWolfgang Schirmachersilencebringing forthcriticism
This essay presents Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of education. As a "living philosopher" Schirmacher's thought should be regarded as standing at a critical and engaged distance to official, consecrated philosophy. Thus, Schirmacher's living philosophy is conceived as explicable both through scholarly essays as well as other kinds of academic praxis. Particularly relevant is his founding and then directing the programme in Media Philosophy at the European Graduate School (EGS). At the core of philosophy there is a lacuna, a certain silence: the present text contextualises elements of Schirmacher's relation to the thought of Martin Heidegger as a necessary, productive silence and regards it as constitutive of any relation between master and student. Crucially, this essay seeks to ascertain how the philosophy programme at EGS can be perceived as a product of Schirmacher's philosophy. Analogous to the way the truths of a living philosophy can never be separated from the life – the form – of the philosopher, so the philosophy programme at EGS sought to integrate the form of each course with its critical content: Schirmacher's philosophy programme emphasised bringing up and bringing forth as much as the more traditional transmission of knowledge. Subsequently, this philosophy programme can be seen as a precise and logical outcome of Schirmacher's thought.

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2018

With Wolfgang Schirmacher. "Heidegger's radical critique of technology as an outline of social acts." Translation from the German. Translated by Torgeir Fjeld. Inscriptions 1, no. 1. Inscriptions Translation DOI

Martin HeideggerPhilosophy of TechnologyHeideggeruniversalismtechnologyGestellphenomenology
The present text shows that the prevailing view of Martin Heidegger's approach to society and technology is not only based on prejudice, but more importantly works to obscure a more relevant perception of reality. Heidegger's "phenomenological hermeneutic" sought to uncover technology's hidden truth, beyond the appearance of technology as framing our existence (Gestell). Even if we acknowledge that technology has now reached a planetary and all-encompassing dissemination – becoming, in effect, the leading figure of our time – we still need to remain vigilant to the metaphysical notions embedded in such a characteristic. We should seek other ways of living with and within technology. A radical critique should seek topologies and "orders" that are universal and preliminary, so that by potentially exceeding every demarcation we can be liberated to a way of listening – a "hearing" (Hören) – to a "constellation" of a different "essence of technology."