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The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume are intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader, calling him to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking. Heidegger is not a 'primitive' or a 'romantic.' He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens and responsibilities of con...more
Paperback, 182 pages
Published
February 19th 1977
by Harper & Row (NY)
(first published 1938)
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Although the critique of technology is important in understanding the value of Heidegger in the context of globalism, I think that some of the ways in which he "frames" it (particularly the Gestell, sadly translated as "enframing") is among the most problematic, and to me, least appealing elements of his philosophy. Nonetheless, some important essays (Question Concerning Technology, Age of the World Picture, Ge-stell), and some excellent essays (Word of Nietzsche: God is Dead) too.
I have taught these essays on several occassions, and I still enjoy reading them. Heidegger displays all that is great and limiting in his philosophy of being in these essays. On the one hand, these are wonderful philosophy vignettes offering great incite into the relationship between technology and thinking. The works bring one to see the limits of technological thought and call upon us to consider other forms of thinking, particularly the poetic, but also a kind of holistic, pretechnological t...more
This essay of Heidegger's was mandatory reading for a number of classes i took in Critical theory and philosophy; etc. I need to re-read it again; but generally speaking, it offers great insight into and/or predicts/deals with a lot of the side effects re: current technological trends and their inevitable impact on our (shared, and/or evolving) collective consciousness (much like Orwell predictions are yet being realized as he laid out in his 1984; and/or Weber, Marx & Engles predicted alien...more
These can be very difficult. Heidegger's writing style demands a slow, extremely careful reading, and even after going over a page a few times, your never sure if you've really gotten it. But he makes these chains of super smart observations that just follow one after the other so quickly that it seems impossible to keep up with some times. There is just so much thought that pivots around the ideas presented in these pieces that it's hard not to be drawn into the often perplexing etymologically...more
May 03, 2011
Erik Graff
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Heidegger fans
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Thomas Sheehan
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This was read for Thomas Sheehan's "Continental German Thought: Heidegger" course during the second semester of 1981/82 at Loyola University Chicago. The concentration of the class was on his Being and Time and my comments about Heidegger are to be found there or in the review of his Basic Writings.
Masterful as always, Heidegger explores the darkness of technology. Is technology really so bad? No. But neither is it our salvation. In The Question Concerning Technology, we begin to look at how modern technology is different than the technology of the past.
This is a great read and not a bad way to begin looking into Heideggerian thought.
This is a great read and not a bad way to begin looking into Heideggerian thought.
akhirnya ketemu juga, ini artikel anda yang paling jelas dan kayake masih relevan sampai sekarang..keren, terutama ketika anda bilang kalau bukan manusia yang menciptakan 'Ada yang teknologis' tapi Ada' yang mengungkapkan dirinya secara teknologis...mistik
Heidegger does a great job of quickly and efficiently explaining technology and tools, then building onto it to consider some major issues on the "evils" of technology.
This is a "quick" read, unlike his Being and Time (which is a great book as well).
This is a "quick" read, unlike his Being and Time (which is a great book as well).
For all the rave that modern philosophers give about Heidegger, I found his arguments to not be all they're cracked up to be. Still, it was work reading if you don't mind the overly endulgent writing style [could be due to translation:].
Dec 05, 2009
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Introduces the concept of Enframing and how man has reduced the question of Being to his own self-referential bubble bent by technology.
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http://a.aaaarg.org/text/2160/questio...
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Some of the best work by Heidegger in articulating the "two kinds of thinking," understanding Neitzsche's "death of God," and the danger we face today in losing the meaning of Being.
Buen trabajo, indica precisamente la problemática que Heidegger encontró en cuanto a la relación tecnocratica con el pensamiento, implicaciones y consecuencias del desarrollo.
Holy cow this one looks good. Also some lectures sound like awesome sci-fi/horror flicks: "The Thing," "The Danger," and "The Turning."
We only read his essay "The Question Concerning Technology" for our Montserrat class.
Studying this for class. Pretty eye-opening. Hope to post a more complete review later.
Actually really love this one the 2nd time through.
not my favorite Heidegger, but great as an introduction.
Oct 06, 2012
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humans against human-resource farming unite!
Technology as a means to the truth; technology as an extension of human ingenuity and means to free human struggle.
Jul 11, 2008
Ian
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A very difficult, but rewarding, examination of the "essence of technology," in which lies the "supreme danger" and the "saving power." There is a questioning of the modernization of the society and Heidegger urges us to remember that art needs to play a role in society to prevent us from simply becoming a cog in a giant productivity machine, a "standing reserve," as he puts it.
why, after all this time, after struggling to follow... do i give this four? mainly because i like to think, and i am fairly certain my difficulties stem from my ignorance of texts, ideas, arguments offered. yes i did really like this. it is worth reading slowly, only bit by bit, and maybe a tutor would help...
this book wasn't that bad but it's still heidegger and i still hate him. his theories on nature vs. technology are interesting and i feel like oslo, norway would be his worst nightmare, an overabundance of cranes and technology in nature.
"thinking only begins when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought"
Heidegger frames the questions for modern times. A must, but very difficulty read. See also, Poetry, Thought and Language.
His discussion of boredom is worth the price of admission.
Heidegger off the deep end.
Ummmm... this guy is crazy!
what a beast!
A must read
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Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification. His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact far beyo...more
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“...then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man, precisely as the one so threatened, exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth. In this way the impression comes to prevail that everything man encounters exists only insofar as it is his construct. This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence. Man stands so decisively in attendance on the challenging-forth of Enframing that he does not apprehend Enframing as a claim, that he fails to see himself as the one spoken to, and hence also fails in every way to hear in what respect he ek-sists, from out of his essence, in the realm of an exhortation or address, and thus can never encounter only himself.”
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