{"product_id":"artist-philosopher-in-the-age-of-addiction","title":"Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Smith argues that modern humanity suffers from a late-stage, pre-fatal addiction to scientific-technological thinking. Like most pre-fatal addictions, this one will most likely result in one of three ways: misery, extinction, or human transformation. The question remains, wherein lies the third way?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Smith, mankind’s chronic and as yet undiagnosed sickness originates in early Western metaphysics and has long been thoroughly globalized. It explains unstoppable extractionism and its relentlessly increasing by-product, carbon dioxide. It also explains today’s ever-increasing rate of species extinction and the increasingly likely collapse of the biosphere. Citing climate change tolerance and denial as symptomatic of pre-fatal addiction, Smith turns his analysis to Heidegger’s \"question concerning technology\" and shows that even Heidegger had become \"hooked\" on scientific-technological thinking. Surrendering to his disease, Heidegger \"steps back\" into \"meditative thought.\" This in turn opens Heidegger to an East-West mode of scientific-poetic consciousness, the thinking of artist-philosophers such as Laozi, Hölderlin, and Rachel Carson. For Heidegger, this way of thinking lays the path to mankind’s transformative emancipation from an otherwise inescapable catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will be of interest to scholars of the arts and culture, histories of consciousness, and climate studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260551778648,"sku":"9781032557328","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032557328.jpg?v=1768049137","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/artist-philosopher-in-the-age-of-addiction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}