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The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays X; MARTIN HEIDEGGER Translated and with an Intr oduction by WILLIAM LOVITT GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC. New York & London 1977 | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER ESSAYS. English translation copyright @ 1977 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotati... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Contents PART I The Question Concerning Technology The Turning PART II The Word of Nietzsche: "God Is Dead" PART III The Age of the World Picture Science and Reflection vii ix xiii 3 36 53 115 155 | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Acknowledgments I am greatly indebted to Professor J. Glenn Gray for initiating me into the demanding art of translating Heidegger and for our close association over the past two years, in the course of which his meticulous reviewing of my translations for this volume has rescued me from many dangers but left me largel... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
viii Acknowledgments her successor, are due my special thanks for exceptional skill and care. Every page of this book owes its final shaping in very large measure to the imaginative and rigorous scrutiny of my wife, Dr. Harriet Brundage Lovitt, who, though trained in another discipline, has now become indisputably a sc... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Preface The essays in this book were taken with Heidegger's permission from three different volumes of his works: Die Technik und die Kehre (Pfullingen: Gunther Neske, 1962); Holzwege (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1952); and Vortriige und Aufsiitze (Pful lingen: Gunther Neske, 1954). li The Question Concerning Tec... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
x Preface The second lecture was given on November 18, 1955, also in an expanded version, under the title "The Question Concerning Tech nology," in the series entitled "The Arts in the Technological Age. " (See Vortriige und Aufsiitze, 1954, pp. 13 ff. ). The present volume repeats this text unaltered. The third lectu... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Preface xi "Science and Reflection" ["Wissenschaft und Besinnung"J: Lecture, in its present version given in August, 1954, before a small group, in preparation for the above-mentioned conference in Munich. WILLIAM LOVITT Sacramento, California | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume-intriguing, challenging, and often baffling the reader-call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking. Every philosopher demands to be read in his own terms. This... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xiv Introduction Heidegger is not a "primitive" or a "romanti c. " He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens and responsibilities of con temporary life into serenity, either through the re-creating of some idyllic past or through the exalting of some simple ex perience. Finally, Heidegger is not a foe of techno... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xv and needed by Being, cooperates in the handing out of limits and the setting of bounds. Here Being is in no sense to be thought of as an entity of some sort. Nor is it to be simply identified with any element or aspect or totality of the reality that we ordinarily know. Rather Being is the Being of what... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xvi Introduction him. Characteristically he writes essays, excursions of thought. Each of the five essays in the present volume is of this nature. The five center around the theme of technology and the modern age, yet in reading each of them we travel a particular path. Each is distinctive and self-contained, and must ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xvii Heidegger's writing is intrinsically sequential, always moving in some particular direction. Therefore one must discover meaning as one moves forward. One must experience the turnings of these paths just where they happen. No element can properly be ex cerpted and considered in isolation, and none ca... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xviii In trod uction pening to Being?" (WN 104). When we come upon such ques tions we must listen alertly. A question may be answered in an immediately ensuing sentence, or its answer may emerge only after an involved exposition. But an answer will come. And it will be important to the whole discussion. Sometimes Heid... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xix wrong," he may protest, "if he says that the essence of tech nology has nothing to do with technology. He can't be saying that. But what is he saying? I am willing to do as I was asked, to follow, to question, to build a way. But what can I do with an opaque statement like that? 'The essence of techno... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xx Introduction He has said that language is the house of Being. The reciprocal relation between Being and man is fulfilled through language. Hence to seek out what language is, through discover ing what was spoken in it when it first arose and what has been and can be heard in it thereafter, is in fact to seek out tha... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxi or "essence" or "technology" or "metaphysics" are conveying here. In this situation the non-German reader is of course at a peculiar disadvantage. A translator is inexorably forced to choose among many aspects of connotation for word upon word and to recast sentence after sentence into a very different... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxii Introduction encing" and "withdrawing," are intended variously to act in this way. More importantly, such words, like many others, also have a two-way ness that permits them to point at once to Being and to man. Thus "presencing" and "revealing" speak simultaneously of a moving into presence or un concealment and ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxiii yet they are not really the same. The later phrase is always fuller in meaning by reason of all that has been said since its words were first spoken. This cumulative power of repetition can be seen strikingly when Heidegger returns at the close of an essay to words and themes that sound toward its be... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxiv Introduction subtly diverse occurrences-such things are here to be met with at every turn. Once more the reader may be tempted to say, "What non sense!" One should be wary, however, of leaping hastily to any such conclusion. So pervasively does unitive, relational thinking inform every aspect of Heidegger's work ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxv mental Greek experience of reality. The philosopher wondered at the presencing of things and, wondering, fixed upon them. (That, Heidegger remarks, is why Thales tumbled into a well! [Sem 11]). The philosopher sought to grasp and consider reality, to discover whatever might be permanent within it, so a... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxvi Introduction concerned to discover and decisively to behold the truly real, now finds himself certain of himself; and he takes himself, in that self-certainty, to be more and more the determining center of reality. This stance of man in the midst of all that is bespeaks the fact that man has become " subject. " Th... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxvii of the real" (5R 167). Reality as "nature" is represented as a manifold of cause and effect coherences. 50 represented, nature becomes amenable to experiment. But this does not happen simply because nature intrinsically is of this character; rather it happens, Heidegger avers, specifically because ma... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxviii Introduction to them. However extensive Ly Heidegger may speak about man, his thinking and his doing, he never loses sight of the truth that "in the 'is' /I of everything that is, " 'Being' is uttered. " Modern technology, like ancient techne, from which it springs -and like science and metaphysics, which are es... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxix nature, life, and history in dealing with them in 'the sciences; and his calculating and cataloguing and disposing of all manner of things through machine technology-all these alike are ex pressions of that essence and of that revealing. Technology, so understood, is in no sense an instrument of man'... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxx Introduction a mode of Being's revealing of itself. Yet in it, also, Being with draws, so that the summons that thus "enframes" is all but de void of Being as empowering to be. Compelled by its claim, ordered and orderer alike are denuded. All that is and man himself are gripped in a structuring that exhibits a m... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxxi The establishing of the conditions necessary for the will to power's willing of itself is thought of by Nietzsche as value positing. Nietzsche designates as "nihilism" the devaluing of the trans cendent values imposed on man by traditional metaphysical thinking; and he calls "completed nihilism" the... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxxii Introduction ginning to enter upon the consummation of the modern age (cf. WN 96). Overman would consciously will and would have dominion and disposal over all things as the one fully manifesting the will to power. Once again the thinking that degrades Being and in effect destroys it as Being is not a merely huma... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxxiii Such a judgment would, however, be a delusion. Man in fact "can never encounter only himself" (QT 27). For man is sum moned, claimed, in the challenging revealing of Enframing even when he knows it not, even when he thinks himself most alone or most dreams of mastering his world. Man's obliviousnes... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxxiv Introduction summons addressed to him and to the way on which he is already being sent. It is to apprehend and accept the dominion of Being already holding sway, and so to be "taken into a freeing claim" (QT 26). The truth of modern man's situation must become known to him. This does not mean at all that man can ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxxv "opennes s-for-Being" ("Da-sein"), but as a merely self-conscious being knowing himself only as an instrument ready for use. 2 Yet this stark eventuality need not befall man. for Enframing necessarily and intrinsically rules not merely as danger but also as that which saves. These are not two discrete... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxxvi Introduction caught up in concealing. Yet the revealing of the truth of Being is concealed as revealing. Hence, "when this entrapping-with oblivion does come expressly to pass, then oblivion as such turns in and abides"; that is, concealment is revealed as concealment (T 43)-for it conceals that which is itself ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxxvii they meet in the very same relationshi p; but now, instead of and yet within the skeletal darkness of Enframing, there flashes also the light of that disclosing which brings them to belong together, which grants them what is truly their own. Here there can be disclosed to modern man something beyond... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
xxxviii Introduction to have insight into reality such as none before him has ever had? It is a fact that his thinking is confined to Western history and Western thought. But within that scope does he not, as in his treatment of Nietzsche, believe himself able on the basis of that insight to think that which is "unthou... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Introduction xxxix submissive, and in this case submitting to what thinking has to think about. One of the exciting experiences of thinking is that at times it does not fully comprehend the new insights it has just gained, and does not properly see them through. Such, too, is the case with the sentence just cited that ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Part I | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Ques tion Conce rning Technolo gy In what follows we shall be questioning concerning technology. Question ing builds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to the way, and not to fix our attention on iso lated sentences and topics. The way is a way of thinking. All ways of thinking, more or l... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
4 The Question Concerning Technology can respond to this essence, we shall be able to experience the technological within its own bounds. Technology is not equivalent to the essence of technology. When we are seeking the essence of "tree," we have to become aware that That which pervades every tree, as tree, is not its... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 5 nology is. The whole complex of these contrivances is tech nology. Technology itself is a contrivance, or, in Latin, an instrumentum. 3 The current conception of technology, according to which it is a means and a human activity, can therefore be called the in strumental and anthro... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
6 The Question Concerning Technology not, that the instrumental definition of technology is correct? To be sure. The correct always fixes upon something pertinent in whatever is under consideration. However, in order to be cor rect, this fixing by no means needs to uncover the thing in question in its essence. Only at... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 7 whence does it come that the causal character of the four causes is so unifiedly determined that they belong together? So long as we do not allow ourselves to go into these ques tions, causality, and with it instrumentality, and with the latter the accepted definition of technology... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
8 The Question Concerning Technology But there remains yet a third that is above all responsible for the sacrificial vessel. It is that which in advance confines the chalice within the realm of consecration and bestowal. 6 Through this the chalice is circumscribed as sacrificial vessel. Circum scribing gives bounds to... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 9 responsible play? What is the source of the unity of the four causes? What, after all, does this owing and being responsible mean, thought as the Greeks thought it? Today we are too easily inclined either to understand being responsible and being indebted moralistically as a lapse, ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
10 The Question Concerning Technology basis of a look at what the Greeks experienced in being re sponsible, in aitia, we now give this verb "to occasion" a more inclusive meaning, so that it now is the name for the essence of causality thought as the Greeks thought it. The common and narrower meaning of "occasio n" in... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 11 the silver chalice, has the bursting open belonging to bringing forth not in itself, but in another (en alloi), in the craftsman or artist. The modes of occasioning, the four causes, are at play, then, within bringing-forth. Through bringing-forth, the growing things of nature as ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
12 The Question Concerning Technology aletheia for revealing. The Romans translate this with veritas. We say "truth" and usually understand it as the correctne ss of an idea. But where have we strayed to? We are questioning concerning technology, and we have arrived now at aletheia, at revealing. What has the essence o... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 13 two things with respect to the meaning of this word. One is that techne is the name not only for the activities and skills of the craftsman, but also for the arts of the mind and the fine arts. T echne belongs to bringing-forth, to poiesis; it is something poietic. The other point ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
14 The Question Concerning Technology it alone that is the disturbing thing, that moves us to ask the question concerning technology per se. It is said that modern technology is something incomparably different from all earlier technologies because it is based on modern physics as an exact science. Meanwhile we have co... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 15 to maintain. The work of the peasant does not challenge the soil of the field. In the sowing of the grain it places the seed in the keeping of the forces of growth and watches over its increase. But meanwhile even the cultivation of the field has come under the grip of another kind... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
16 The Question Concerning Technology The hydroelectric plant is set into the current of the Rhine. It sets the Rhine to supplying its hydraulic pressure, which then sets the turbines turning. This turning sets those machines in motion whose thrust sets going the electric current for which the long-distance power stati... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 17 What kind of unconcealment is it, then, that is peculiar to that which comes to stand forth through this setting-upon that chal lenges? Everywhere everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand, indeed to stand there just so that it may be on call for a further order... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
18 The Question Concerning Technology Who accomplishes the challenging setting-upon through which what we call the real is revealed as standing-reserve? Obviously, man. To what extent is man capable of such a revealing? Man can indeed conceive, fashion, and carry through this or that in one way or another. But man does... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 19 and striving, shaping and working, entreating and thanking, he finds himself everywhere already brought into the unconcealed. The unconcealment of the unconcealed has already come to pass whenever it calls man forth into the modes of revealing allotted to him. When man, in his way,... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
20 The Question Concerning Technology According to ordinary usage, the word Gestell [frame] means some kind of apparatus, e. g., a bookrack. Gestell is also the name for a skeleton. And the employment of the word Ge-stell [En framing] that is now required of us seems equally eerie, not to speak of the arbitrariness wi... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 21 the sphere of technological activity; and this activity always merely responds to the challenge of Enframing, but it never comprises Enframing itself or brings it about. The word stellen [to set upon] in the name Ge-stell [Enfram ing] not only means challenging. At the same time i... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
22 The Question Concernin g Technology when it could be supported by exact physical science. Reckoned chronologically, this is correct. Thought historicall y, it does not hit upon the truth. The modern physical theory of nature prepares the way first not simply for technology but for the essence of modern tech nology.... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 23 If modern physics must resign itself ever increasingly to the fact that its realm of representation remains inscrutable and incapable of being visualized, this resignation is not dictated by any committee of researchers. It is challenged forth by the rule of Enframing, which demand... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
24 The Question Concerning Technology Again we ask: Does this revealing happen somewhere beyond all human doing? No. But neither does it happen exclusively in man, or decisively through man. Enframing is the gathering together that belongs to that setting-upon which sets upon man and puts him in position to reveal the ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 25 every way of revealing. Bringing-forth, poiesis, is also a destining in this sense. Always the unconcealment of that which is22 goes upon a way of revealing. Always the destining of revealing holds complete sway over man. But that destining is never a fate that compels. For man bec... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
26 The Question Concerning Technology thing, to rebel helplessly against it and curse it as the work of the devil. Quite to the contrary, when we once open ourselves expressly to the essence of technology, we find ourselves un expectedly taken into a freeing claim. The essence of technology lies in Enframing. Its hold... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 2/ object, but does so, rather, exclusively as standing-re serve, and man in the midst of objectlessness is nothing but the orderer of the standing-reserve, then he comes to the very brink of it precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
28 The Question Concerning Technology Enframing blocks the shining-forth and holding-sway of truth. The destinil1g that sends into ordering is consequently the ex treme q. afiger. What is dangerous is not technology. There is no d<::m6nry of technology, but rather there is the mystery of its : essence. The essence of ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 29 should be able to lay hold of the saving power immediately and without preparation. Therefore we must consider now, in ad vance, in what respect the saving power does most profoundly take root and thence thrive even in that wherein the extreme danger lies, in the hdlding sway of E... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
30 The Question Concerning Technology ing has its origin as a destining in bringing-forth. But at the same time Enframing, in a way characteristic of a destining, blocks poiesis. Thus Enframing, as a destining of revealing, is indeed the essence of technology, but never in the sense of genus and essentia. If we pay hee... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 31 the permanent enduring of an Idea that hovers over everything technological, thus making it seem that by technology we mean some mythological abstraction? The way in which technology essences lets itself be seen only from out of that permanent enduring in which Enframing comes to p... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
32 The Question Concerning Technology ical Iy, if in this destining the saving power is said to grow. Every destining of revealing comes to pass from out of a granting and as such a granting. For it is granting that first conveys to man that share in revealing which the coming-to-pass of revealing needs. 26 As the one ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 33 The essence of technology is in a lofty sense ambiguous. Such ambiguity points to the mystery of all revealing, i. e., of truth. On the one hand, Enframing challenges forth into the frenzied ness of ordering that blocks every view into the coming-t o-pass of revealing and so radic... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
34 The Question Concerning Technology all saving power must be of a higher essence than what is en dangered, though at the same time kindred to it. But might there not perhaps be a more primally granted re vealing that could bring the saving power in to its first shining forth in the midst of the danger, a revealing ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Question Concerning Technology 3S Could it be that the fine arts are called to poetic revealing? Could it be that revealing lays claim to the arts most primally, so that they for their part may expressly foster the growth of the saving power, may awaken and found anew our look into that which grants and our trust i... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning The essence1 of Enframing is that setting-upon gathered into itself which entraps the truth of its own coming to presence with oblivion. 2 This entrapping disguises itself, in that it develops 1. Throughout this essay the noun Wesen will sometimes be given its traditional translation "es sence," but more of... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 37 into the setting in order of everything that presences as standing reserve, establishes itself in the standing-re serve, and rules as the standing-reserve. Enframing comes to presence as the danger. But does the dan ger therewith announce itself as the danger? No. To be sure, men are at all times and i... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
38 The Question Concerning Technology inexperienced and thoughtless to think the essence of the his torical from out of destining and ordaining and taking place so as to adapt. We are still too easily inclined, out of habit, to conceive that which has the character of destining in terms of happening, and to represent ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 39 as Being to endure as present-for this reason the coming to presence of technology cannot be led into the change of its destining without the cooperation of the coming to presence of man. Through this cooperation, however, technology will not be overcome [iiberwunden] by men. On the contrary, the coming ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
40 The Question Concerning Technology now holding sway. In pondering this let us pay heed to a word of Meister Eckhart, as we think it in keeping with what is most fundamental to it. It reads: "Those who are not of a great essence, whatever work they perform, nothing comes of it"5 (Reden der Unterscheidung, No. 4). It ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 41 itself and be effective. In view of this, language is never pri marily the expression of thinking, feeling, and willing. Language is the primal dimension within which man's essence is first able to correspond at all to Being and its claim, and, in correspond ing, to belong to Being. This primal corresp... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
42 The Question Concerning Technology edge of this kind would even be most ruinous for man, because his essence is to be the one who waits, the one who attends upon the coming to presence of Being in that in thinking he guards it. Only when man, as the shepherd of Being, attends upon the truth of Being can he expect an... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 43 But where is the danger? What is the place for it? Inasmuch as the danger is Being itselt it is both nowhere and everywhere. It has no place as something other than itself. It is itself the placeless dwelling place of all presencing. The danger is the epoch of Being coming to presence as Enframi ng. 10 W... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
44 The Question Concerning Technology presence of Being, instead of allowing that coming to presence to fall into disguise. In the coming to presence of the danger there comes to presence and dwells a favor, namely, the favor of the turning about of the oblivion of Being into the truth of Being. In the coming to presen... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 45 "To flash [blitzen J, in terms both of its derivation and of what it designates, is "to glance" [blicken]. In the flashing glance and as that glance, the essence, the coming to presence, of Being enters into its own emitting of light. Moving through the element of its own shining, the flashing glance ret... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
46 The Question Concerning Technology Insight into that which is-this designation now names the disclosing that brings into its own that is the coming-to-pass of the turning within Being, of the turning of the denial of Being's coming to presence into the disclosing coming-to-p ass of Being's safekeeping. Insight into ... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 47 And yet-in all the disguising belonging to Enframing, the bright open-space of world lights up, the truth of Being flashes. At the instant, that is, when Enframing lights up, in its coming to presence, as the danger, i. e., as the saving-power. In Enfram ing, moreover, as a destining of the coming to pr... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
48 The Question Concerning Technology Only when insight brings itself disclosingly to pass, only when the coming to presence of technology lights up as Enframing, do we discern how, in the ordering of the standing-reserve, the truth of Being remains denied as world. Only then do we notice that all mere willing and doin... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Turning 49 constellation of Being is the denial of world, in the form of in jurious neglect of the thing. Denial is not nothing; it is the highest mystery of Being within the rule of Enframing. Whether the god lives or remains dead is not decided by the religiosity of men and even less by the theological aspiratio... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
Part II | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
The Word of Nietzsche: "God Is De ad" The following exposition attempts to point the way toward the place from which it may be possible someday to ask the question concerning the essence of nihilism. 1 The exposition stems from a thinking that is for once just beginning to gain some clarity concerning Nietzsche's funda... | Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf |
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