The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger

Part VII: The Question Concerning Technology, from Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger

Next up, we have Part VII: The Question Concerning Technology from Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger.

Here, Heidegger asks about the essence of technology, and suggests that purely technical modes of thought don't capture what it is - he says that it's ultimately a way of revealing the totality of being. But not necessarily in a good way - because we're at risk of being overwhelmed and overpowered by it. Can our experience of truth and of art rescue us?

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