Abstract
In Heidegger’s published writings, the essay “Die Frage nach der Technik” offers the only study devoted to a systematic consideration of modern technology. In the year 1949, Heidegger held four conferences “Im Club zu Bremen” entitled: “the Thing, das Gestell, the Danger, the Turn”. The essay which is here to be examined is the reworked version of the conference called “the Gestell” and most probably reproduces the main lines presented in the conference “The Danger”, although Heidegger himself affirms that the latter from the fourfold series remained unpublished.1 However this may be in fact, we will now make ourselves attentive to the published study “Die Frage nach der Technik”.2
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Notes
Cf. M.E. Zimmerman, “Heidegger on Nihilism and Technique”,Man and World 8 (1975): 394ff. In this lucid article (p. 395), Zimmerman (strangely enough) writes: “Heidegger claims that the essence of technology is technique (Technik)…”, thereby referring us to the essay “Die Frage nach der Technik”. This is obviously not what Heidegger claims.
Cf. R. Schaeffler, “Martin Heidegger und die Frage nach der Technik”,Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 9 (1955): 121–22, where the author refers to the efficient cause as the “Diener” or “Wegbereiter”.
Cf. Otto Pöggeler,Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers ( Pfullingen: Verlag Günther Neske, 1963 ), p. 244.
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Loscerbo, J. (1981). The Essay “Die Frage Nach Der Technik”. In: Being and Technology. Phaenomenologica, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8222-2_7
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