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We ask the question concerning technology when we ask what it is. Everyone knows the two statements that answer our question. One says: Technology is a means to an end. The other says: Technology is a human activity. The two definitions of technology belong together. For to posit ends and procure and utilize the means to them is a human activity.
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The Question Concerning Technology (German: Die Frage nach der Technik) is a work by Martin Heidegger, in which the author discusses the essence of technology. Heidegger originally published the text in 1954, in Vorträge und Aufsätze.
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As we just heard, Heidegger’s analysis of technology in The Question Concerning Technology consists of three main ‘claims’: (1) technology is “not an instrument”, it is a way of understanding the world; (2) technology is “not a human activity”, but develops beyond human control; and (3) technology is “the highest danger”, risking us to only see the...
Heidegger, Martin. “The question concerning technology (W. Lovitt, Trans.) The question concerning technology: and other essays (pp. 3-35).” (1977).
If you want a bit of help with reading Heidegger, you could have a look at the following essay by one of his foremost interpreters, Herbert Dreyfus. 1. Herbert Dreyfus, “Heidegger on gaining a free relation to technology,” Herbert Dreyfus and Mark Vrathall, eds., Heidegger reexamined: Art, poetry and technology(Routledge, 2002), 163-174.
In this fragment, Heidegger introduces the idea that technology is not be as instrumental(see STEP 1.2 – Glossary) as it is often assumed to be. Rather than being a means for an end, technology is a way of understanding the world. Can you think of examples of technologies that are not merely instrumental but that have a strong influence on how peop...
Learn how Heidegger challenges the instrumental and anthropological definitions of technology and argues that technology is a way of understanding the world. Read a fragment of his original text and explore his ideas with examples and further reading.
The Question Concerning Technology MARTIN HEIDEGGER Source: The Question Concerning Technology(1977), pp 3–35 I n what follows we shall be questioning concerning technology. Questioning builds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to the way, and not to fix our attention on isolated sentences and topics.
A guide to Heidegger's essay on technology, which explores the essence of technology and its relation to human existence. Learn how Heidegger challenges the instrumental and anthropological definitions of technology and argues for a more profound understanding of its role in the world.
A project that provides online access to Heidegger's essay The Question Concerning Technology and other essays on technology, Nietzsche, and science. Users can annotate the text using Hypothes.is, a free and open source annotation layer over the web.
Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter explores the philosophy of Heidegger, for whom the question of technology was central, and whose views typify a wide range of critical views. Heidegger sees technology as the ultimate outworking of Greek metaphysics, with Nietzsche as its ultimate ideologue.
