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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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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. In. 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.
Oct 12, 2011 · In his 1953 piece The Question Concerning Technology, Heidegger begins with the everyday account of technology according to which technology is the vast array of instruments, machines, artefacts and devices that we human beings invent, build, and then exploit. On this view technology is basically a tool that we control.
The Question Concerning Technology. Martin Heidegger. In 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. The way is one of thinking.
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Overcoming Metaphysics. From the First Beginning to the New Beginning. From Philosophy to Political Theory. Heidegger’s Collected Works. Published Writings, 1910-1976. Lectures from Marburg and Freiburg, 1919-1944. Private Monographs and Lectures, 1919-1967. Notes and Fragments. 1. Life and Works.
Heidegger’s most influential work on technology is the lecture “The Question Concerning Technology,” published in 1954, which was a revised version of part two of a four-part lecture series he delivered in Bremen in 1949 (his first public speaking appearance since the end of the war).
