Dear all,
In January and February, I will offer a new course on Heidegger's Philosophy: Martin Heidegger's "Insight Into That Which Is",
which is one of the most famous and most important texts of Heidegger's
Philosophy. He gave this lecture 1949 in Bremen, offering "Insights"
about Technology, about the Enframing (das Gestell), about the Danger that comes with it, and about the Turning (Kehre). Heidegger's lecture is about our own current time and about where we are heading, our dark future.
This
course is a lecture+reading course on Heidegger's "Insight Into That
Which Is". We will meet 8 times, for 90 minutes. I will explain,
summarize, guide through the text; and we will read the most important
parts together. The text is in total 73 pages long, which means we have
plenty of time to read and discuss it within our 8 lectures. We will
read about 5 pages together every week. The Homework will be to read about 4 pages every week and to ask and prepare questions.
Everybody
who is interested to learn something about Heidegger's understanding of
technology is welcome in this course. You do not need any previous
knowledge of Heidegger's Philosophy; but there will be parts of this
text that are probably impossible to understand in your first reading.
As a teacher, I'll help with these parts and explain everything in more
detail. I will also provide context about Heidegger's Philosophy and
about his philosophy of technology within the broader landscape of
Western Philosophy.
The difficulty of this text is 6/10. For comparison: I'd give Being and Time a
7/10. Which is also why it is good to have guidance and a group of
like-minded people for questions and discussions. Reading this text on
your own might be very difficult.
Overview:
What: Martin
Heidegger's "Insight Into That Which Is" (1949) (73 pages), English
Translation by A. Mitchell, Original Text in German from GA 79.
When: Thursdays, 07:00-08:30pm, for 8 weeks.
When do we Start: Thusrday, January 4th. Until: Thursday, February 29th.
Where: Online on Tencent Meeting (voov meeting).
Who: Dr. Kraatz, currently Assoc. Prof. at Hunan Normal University. Graduated from FU Berlin, Philipps-Uni Marburg, TU Dresden, Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, PostDoc and Assoc. Researcher at Hunan Uni, PhD in Philosophy. More Info down below or on www.karl-kraatz.de
Price: 800 RMB for 8 Lectures, including Video Recordings, Transcripts and Summaries (These Transcripts and Summaries can be easily translated into Chinese), and Reading Materials. (You can ask for a discount if you are a student and having financial difficulties; or if you actively participated in one of the previous courses).
Language: English
You want to attend but you do not have time:
There
will be video recordings of all lectures; and you could ask all of your
questions in the WeChat Group. Unfortunately, this course might not be
repeated in the future.
How do I join? Add the Assistant: Wolfgang0626 (scroll down, there is a QR Code at the end of this article).
The Text: (will be shared in the WeChat Group)
Bremen
and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of
Thinking. Trans. by Andrew Mitchell. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2012.
Original: GA 79. Bremer und Freiburger Vorträge. Ed.
Petra Jaeger, 1994, 2005 (rev. ed.)
Dates:
1. Starting on Thursday, January 4th. Lecture + Reading the First Chapters
2. Jan. 11th, Lecture With Summary, Reading the Second Chapter
3. Jan. 18th, Technology
4. Jan. 25th., Enframing
5. Feb. 1st., The Dangers of Technology
6. Feb. 8th., The Dangers of the Enframing
7. Feb. 22th., The Turning.
8. Last Lecture: Feb. 29th., Hope.
Teacher:
Dr.
Karl Kraatz, born in Berlin/Germany. Degrees from FU Berlin,
Philipps-Universität Marburg and TU Dresden. Currently Associate Prof.
at Hunan Normal University in Changsha. Published on the philosophy of
Heidegger, phenomenology and transcendental philosophy. Monographs: The Methodology of Heidegger's Philosophy (2020), Bringing Being to Language (2022);
more than 10 articles and book chapters in various journals: including.
"Heidegger's Criticism of AI Art, Why AI Art is not Art", (forthcoming), also: "Heidegger's Transcendental Ontology" in Idealistic Studies (2022), "Heidegger's Self-Criticism in Being and Time", in Review of Metaphysics (2022), "Resoluteness as Heidegger's Philosophical Method", in Synthesis Philosophica (2022),
and an article on the artwork essay on which this course will be:
"Martin Heidegger on the Relation of Life and Art" (2021).
Participant/Host of various Projects (2 national).
(More info at www.karl-kraatz.de)
How do I join? Add the Assistant: Wolfgang0626 (scroll down, there is a QR Code at the end of this article).
