M. Ermarth: “Heidegger on Americanism: Ruinanz and the End of Modernity”

Michael Ermarth conducts a close investigation of the use of the term “Americanism” and “Americanization” in Heidegger’s writings from the mid-1930’s to the late-1960’s. In order to address these terms, he first addresses Ruinanz, Heidegger’s concept of the ruination of the world and obscuring of Being by way of modernity and technological progress (the “unworlding” [...]

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