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The ecological crisis facing humanity today is not, German philosopher Martin Heidegger would claim, merely the product of recent economic productivity nor can we solve it with yet more technology. It is the product of a "will to mastery" that has obsessed our culture, he claims, since the Greeks. Heidegger ominously warns that this "will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control." This course will explore ideas for and against claims like those of Heidegger and in so doing address the global ecological turning point we appear to face.