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  <title><![CDATA[The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume--intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader--call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Heidegger is not a 'primitive' or a 'romantic.' He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens and responsibilities of contemporary life into serenity, either through the re-creating of some idyllic past or through the exalting of some simple experience. Finally, Heidegger is not a foe of technology and science. He neither disdains nor rejects them as though they were only destructive of human life.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;The roots of Heidegger's thinking lie deep in the Western philosophical tradition. Yet that thinking is unique in many of its aspects, in its language, and in its literary expression. In the development of this thought Heidegger has been taught chiefly by the Greeks, by German idealism, by phenomenology, and by the scholastic theological tradition. In him these and other elements have been fused by his genius of sensitivity and intellect into a very individual philosophical expression.&quot; --William Lovitt, &lt;I&gt;from the Introduction&lt;/I&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Heidegger]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;frames&quot; it (particularly the Gestell, sadly translated as &quot;enframing&quot;) is among the most problematic, and to me, least ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27007137">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 25 12:42:21 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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:].]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very difficult, but rewarding, examination of the &quot;essence of technology,&quot; in which lies the &quot;supreme danger&quot; and the &quot;saving power.&quot; 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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26970904">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <review id="25586972">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;thinking only begins when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="6112429">
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    <body><![CDATA[Heidegger frames the questions for modern times.  A must, but very difficulty read.  See also, Poetry, Thought and Language.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[His discussion of boredom is worth the price of admission.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heidegger off the deep end.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read]]></body>
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