Question
Houkes and Meijers have pointed out that you cannot make one of these things from foam, nor can you use foam as one of these things. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thing. In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger used this specific tool as an example of something that is “ready-to-hand”, as we understand it in terms of what it does, rather than what it is.
ANSWER: hammer
[10e] Building on Heidegger, Graham Harman has written about the “broken hammer” of this Italian writer of the Divine Comedy.
ANSWER: Dante Alighieri [accept either underlined portion]
[10h] Although similar formulations predate him, this thinker sometimes names the observation that “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail”.
ANSWER: Abraham (Harold) Maslow [accept Maslow’s hammer]
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