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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 .
- Martin Heidegger
- Die Frage nach der Technik
- 1954
- 1954
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 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.
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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...
lingen: Gunther Neske, 1954). liThe Question Concerning Tech nology" is contained in both Die Technik und die Kehre and Vortriige und Aufsiitze. In Die T echnik und die Kehre the following prefatory note appears regarding the two essays, "The Question Concerning Technology" ("Die Frage nach der Technik") and "The Turning" ("Die Kehre"):
The full text of Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology from the book The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (1977), translated by William Levitt, is now available online.
In "The Question Concerning Technology," he asks, "how do we generally think about technology?" He comes up with two answers: These answers make up what Heidegger calls the current "instrumental [aimed at getting things done] and anthropological [a human activity] definition of technology" (288). He concedes that this definition is correct ...
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