Overview
- Applies the phenomenological method to show how technology transforms our culture of immediate gratification
- Takes a philosophical approach to a personal and social crisis
- Provides a unique inroad to understanding and appropriating Heidegger’s thinking
- Is written for an interdisciplinary audience in psychiatry, phenomenological psychology, and health-care
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 93)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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The Origins of the Addiction Crisis
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From Pathos to Healing: Transcendence and a New Life-Trajectory
Keywords
- Addictive Practices and Dissociative Personality
- Authenticity and Ownedness
- Fetish-like Attraction and Compulsion
- Globalization and Commodification
- Hermeneutic Phenomenology
- Martin Heidegger
- Selfhood and Self-Identity
- Technology and Machination
- Temporality and Time-space
- Twelve Step Program and Bill Wilson
About this book
This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of “addiction,” presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament. The book introduces phenomenological motifs, such as desire, embodiment, and temporality, to uncover the existential roots of addiction, and develops Martin Heidegger’s insights into technology to uncover the challenge of becoming a self within the impulsiveness and depersonalization of our digital age.
By charting a new path of philosophical inquiry, the book allows a pervasive, cultural phenomenon, ordinarily reserved to psychology, to speak as a referendum about the danger which technology poses to us on a daily basis. In this regard, addiction ceases to be merely a clinical malady, and instead becomes a “signpost” to exposing a hidden danger posed by the assimilation of our culture within a technological framework.
Reviews
“Frank Schalow’s Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence enhances and enlarges our understanding of the problem of addiction as a problem of existence, aproblem in living, a problem in “how to be.”… This courageous work will prove to be an innovative addition to the literature on addiction. It will serve as an invaluable resource for those who work in the field of addiction—especially for those who use experience-near therapeutic approaches that are incipiently phenomenological.” (Mufid James Hannush, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Vol. 49, 2018)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence
Authors: Frank Schalow
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66942-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66941-0Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88350-2Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66942-7Published: 11 October 2017
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 191
Topics: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Technology