#  Ungeheuer ist viel: Heidegger on Technology, Convenience, and Monstrous Transformation 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 26, 2026** 

 04:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center, Room 403 (Finnegan)**  



 

 



 

## [GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES](/german-studies-new-perspectives)

## SPEAKER: John Hamilton, Harvard University

A reconsideration of Martin Heidegger’s engagement with archaic Greek texts, specifically the Fragment of Anaximander and the first stasimon from Sophocles’ *Antigone*, challenges standard interpretations of Heidegger’s thinking on the essence of technology. Especial focus is given to an implicit critique of *convenience*, which is shown to reach back to his earlier work in fundamental ontology and steer his later reflections on the end of metaphysics.

### About the Speaker

John Hamilton is the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature. Publications include: *Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity and the Classical Tradition* (2004); *Music, Madness and the Unworking of Language* (2008); *Security* (2013); *Philology of the Flesh* (2018); *Complacency: Classics and its Displacement in Higher Education* (2022); *France/Kafka: An Author in Theory* (2023); and *Without Within: Parenthetic Interferences in Classical Reception* (2025).

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