Pedagogical prosthesis and vertical address
Visuality and hortatory conversion as technics of self in Martin Heidegger, Bernard Stiegler, and Peter Sloterdijk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21485135 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Tan (0000-0003-2268-2105, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 475-486 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0218-8791 • E-ISSN: 1742-6855 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02188791.2025.2502086 |
| OpenAlex | W4410449111 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This paper will outline the contemporary philosophical appropriation and critique of Heidegger’s understanding of techne as the primary mode of being-in-the-world, and its implications for education, in the work of Bernard Stiegler and Peter Sloterdijk. I begin by engaging with a Heideggerian theory of education as turning away from inauthentic captivation towards the moment of truth. Heidegger’s ambiguous depiction of technological captivation motivates Steigler’s characterization of the contemporary malaise of education, which demands an alternative engagement with Heidegger’s historicization of the human being that precipitates a complex negotiation with the possibilities of relating technology with education, correlating authenticity with the primacy of the prosthetic. By contrasting Steigler’s arguments about technological co-appropriation with Heidegger’s allergy against technocratic modernity, I argue for how a pedagogic dealing with the technological can allow for difference to emerge on the level of Stiegler’s tertiary synthesis which unfolds in a horizontal dimension. Lastly, I supplement Stiegler’s depiction of educational malaise by drawing on Sloterdijk’s use of the hortatory to effect a teaching-from-above, demonstrating how this vertical address located in both Heidegger and Peter Sloterdijk reorientates education from dead repetition to total conversion
Sociology · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Technology and the Lifeworld
Technics and Time, 1
Pathmarks
Is education exhausted
Approaching by digression
Stiegler’s university
Transhuman Education? Sloterdijk's Reading of Heidegger's Letter on Humanism
Errant Learning for a Foam World
Against the humiliation of thought
Politics of digital learning—Thinking education with Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler and the necessity of education is the hammer broken and so what
On the organology of utopia
From ‘Dare to Think!’ to ‘How Dare You!’ and back again
Heidegger and Stiegler on failure and technology
The pedagogical effect
Artwork as Technics
Technologizing the human condition
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |