{"product_id":"9780812697735","title":"Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects","description":"\u003ci\u003eTool-Being\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger's famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger's legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery reader of \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (\u003ci\u003eZuhandenheit\u003c\/i\u003e) and presence-at-hand (\u003ci\u003eVorhandenheit\u003c\/i\u003e), but commentators usually follow Heidegger's wishes in giving this distinction a limited scope, as if it applied only to tools in a narrow sense. Graham Harman contests Heidegger's own interpretation of tool-being, arguing that the opposition between tool and broken tool is not merely a provisional stage in his philosophy, but rather its living core. The extended concept of tool-being developed here leads us not to a theory of human practical activity but to an ontology of objects themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTool-Being\u003c\/i\u003e urges a fresh and concrete research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a lively and colorful style, it will be of great interest to anyone intrigued by Heidegger and anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.","brand":"Open Court Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118569865456,"sku":"9780812697735","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812697735_p0.jpg?v=1763749033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812697735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}