
Existentialism • 20th-century philosophy
Published in 1954, the collection brings together some of Heidegger's most important short texts from his middle and late period. In these texts, Heidegger develops key ideas about technology, art, language, and man's relationship to Being.
One of the most famous essays, "The Question of Technology" (Die Frage nach der Technik), analyzes the essence of technology. Technology is not just a means, but a way of discovering the world that threatens to reduce everyone to "resources", including man himself. However, it is precisely in this danger that the possibility of a new, deeper relationship to Being lies hidden.
In the essay "T...
Pfullingen Neske Verlag, 1967.Paperback.