The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction

Heidegger’s Climatology

George Smith (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA.)

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Routledge
16 March 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Christianity

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

George 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?

According 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.

The book will be of interest to scholars of the arts and culture, histories of consciousness, and climate studies.

Chapter 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

By: George Smith (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts USA.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781032557328
ISBN 10: 103255732X
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 16 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

George Smith is Founder, President Emeritus, and Edgar E. Coons, Jr. Professor of New Philosophy at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA.