The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays
The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger is a thought-provoking collection published by Harper Collins on January 19, 1982. This reprint edition spans 224 pages and is presented in English. The essays invite readers to engage deeply with Heidegger’s philosophical inquiries, challenging them to move beyond superficial understanding and to embrace a serious exploration of thought.
In this volume, readers will encounter Heidegger’s unique perspective on technology and its relationship to human existence. The essays delve into the complexities of contemporary life, emphasizing that Heidegger does not reject technology or science but rather seeks to understand their implications. Drawing from a rich philosophical tradition, including influences from the Greeks and German idealism, Heidegger’s work is characterized by its distinctive language and literary expression, encouraging a profound engagement with philosophical ideas.
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“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….
“Heidegger is not a ‘primitive’ or a ‘romanitic.’ 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.
“The roots of Heidegger’s hinking lie deep in the Western philosophical tradition. Yet that thinking is unique in many of its aspects, in its language, and in its leterary 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.” –William Lovitt, from the Introduction
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