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15. Ibid., 179.
16. Stephen Toulmin, The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the
Theology of Nature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
17. Karl Marx, Capital (New York: International Publishers, 1967), 1:183, 179.
18. See especially Karl Marx, The German Ideology , ed. C. J. Arthur (New York:
International Publishers, 1977), 42.
19. Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 , ed. Dirk
J. Struik (New York: International Publishers, 1964), 113.
20. Ibid., 144.
21. Ibid., 113.
22. Ibid., 187.
23. Ibid.
24. Karl Marx, The Grundrisse , ed. and trans. David McLellan (New York:
Harper and Row, 1971), 94.
25. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time , trans. John MacQuarrie and Edward
Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962).
26. Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology , trans. Albert
Hofstadter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979), 116.
27. See Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1958), 248-257.
28. Martin Heidegger, “The Question concerning Technology,” in The Question
concerning Technology and Other Essays , trans. William Lovitt (New York:
Harper and Row, 1973), 3-35.
29. Such talk is not as romantic as it first sounds. Wind farms are becoming
commonplace around the world. Ireland, for example, has recently constructed
one on a sandbar off the coast of County Wicklow that will provide the repub-
lic with 10 percent of its current energy needs.
30. Martin Heidegger, The End of Philosophy , trans. Joan Stambaugh (New
York: Harper and Row, 1973), 109.
31. Martin Heidegger, “Science and Reflection,” in The Question concerning
Technology and Other Essays, trans, William Lovitt (New York: Harper and
Row, 1973), 174.
32. The Greek word for fate is moira , perhaps best understood as those limits
that circumscribe our existence as human.
33. Toulmin, The Return to Cosmology , 251.
34. Some in the scientific world are willing to entertain a flux so radical that the
permanence and universality of the underlying laws of nature are called into
question. Stephen Jay Gould is a case in point. John Horgan, previously a writer
for Scientific American , reports a conversation with Gould in which the Harvard
biologist and historian of science argued that extraterrestrial life may not
conform to “Darwinian principles.” Horgan then comments: “By liberating