This is the first half of a discussion in which I broadly but rigorously introduce the most definitive characteristic of Postmodern philosophy and how that characteristic is inherently related to what we refer to as "technology" and PreModern philosophy. Specifically, I discuss the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Jünger, Martin Heidegger, and Leo Strauss, all in relation to:
(1) each other,
(2) what we refer to as "technology,"
(3) Premodern philosophy as represented by the Greeks, specifically Homer, Heraclitus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle,
(4) so-called "return" movements and, lastly,
(5) how and why it is that Thucydides in particular is important in Postmodernity beginning with Nietzsche and continuing up to and especially in the thought of Leo Strauss
This is the first half of a discussion in which I broadly but rigorously introduce the most definitive characteristic of Postmodern philosophy and how that characteristic is inherently related to what we refer to as "technology" and PreModern philosophy. Specifically, I discuss the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Jünger, Martin Heidegger, and Leo Strauss, all in relation to:
(1) each other,
(2) what we refer to as "technology,"
(3) Premodern philosophy as represented by the Greeks, specifically Homer, Heraclitus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle,
(4) so-called "return" movements and, lastly,
(5) how and why it is that Thucydides in particular is important in Postmodernity beginning with Nietzsche and continuing up to and especially in the thought of Leo Strauss