--Nietzsche
The coming to presence of technology will be surmounted (verwunden) in a way that restores it into its yet unconcealed truth. The restoring surmounting is similar to what happens when, in the human realm, one gets over pain"
--- Heidegger
F. Scott
Scribner is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Dept. of Humanities, Hillyer College, at The University of Hartford. He is a
specialist in 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, with a
particular interest in Post-Kantian
German
Idealism, philosophy of technology, and media theory. He has published
widely in this field with more than twenty published articles and essays. He
has a book forthcoming with Penn State University Press (2009), entitled Matters of Spirit: J.G.
Fichte and the Technological Imagination. His current manuscript
research project is entitled The Cut of Judgment. This project
explores a genealogy of aesthetic judgment through the embodied
self-differentiation inherent in the phenomena of cutting and its role in evolutionary biology
and technological self-transfiguration.
email: scribner@hartford.edu