Prometheanism Muller, Christopher John
2016., 2016, 2016-08-16
eBook
Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in ...critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our increasingly “smart” machines. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders’s philosophy of technology with an annotated translation of his visionary essay ‘On Promethean Shame’, part of The Obsolescence of Human Beings 1 published in 1956.The essay analyses feelings of curtailment, obsolescence and solitude that become manifest whilst we interact with machines. When technological solutions begin to make humans look embarrassingly limited and flawed, new emotional vulnerabilities are exposed. These need to be thought, because our wavering confidence leaves us unprotected in an ever more (un)transparent, connected yet fractured world.
THE SHAME OF THE SURVIVOR Parussa, Sergio
Journal of modern Jewish studies,
20/3/1/, Volume:
7, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
In the third chapter of
The Drowned and the Saved
, Primo Levi describes the shame of the survivor-the nameless pain felt before the silence and the void of Auschwitz-as an echo of the atavistic ...anguish inscribed in every one of the
tohu-bohu
, the empty and deserted universe. In this feeling there may lie the first signs of a reaction against blind matter: a form of consciousness of the existence of evil and an anticipation of hope for a better future. In this article, the author explores how, by means of a meditation on Auschwitz, by a reference to the Bible and to some fundamental concepts of Jewish ethics, Levi delineates an ethical horizon on which a text, a collective memory and a relationship with God, or with the silence of God, stand as fragile but visible signposts in an ethically uncertain future.
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