The Possibility of Transition: Thinking and Acting with Michael Pelias

Join Michael Pelias for this 5-Week Online Seminar on Heidegger's key lectures on thinking and acting. Through a careful reading of Martin Heidegger’s 1964 lecture, “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking” and the 1951-52 lectures, “What is Called Thinking? “, we will attempt to resituate ourselves, our singularities in the fragmented and confused dissolution of the “new world order “, and confront the effects that data driven societies of control yield, that is the symptoms of our “lostness.” Heidegger invites us to ask what does it mean to think, thinking in relation to the hand, to apprenticeship and learning, thinking and thanking and in his twenty -one lectures encounters the struggle between machine–automated thinking, cybernetic control and communication and distinguishes between scientific thinking and Thinking as such.

Heidegger reminds us that “we have not yet begun to think,” and in his originary interrogative fashion gives us signposts to reflect upon and opens the possibility to find new direction desperately needed amidst jargon-laden academicism, formulaic cliches, automated behaviorisms, and reductionist economisms.

Throughout the seminar, we will keep open the possibility that a revolution in thinking is both a necessary and sufficient condition for our time of transition to economies of care and no rule (isonomia).

Readings from Heidegger :

“The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking” pp. 427-449 in Basic Writings , revised and expanded edition, translated by David Farrell Krell with a foreword by Taylor Carman, 2008.

What is called Thinking? translated by J. Glenn Gray, Harper Perennial, 1954 in German, 1968 in English and 2004.

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