Heidegger, in his later writings on technology, draws attention to technology’s place in bringing about our decline by constricting our experience of things as they are.
He argues that we now view nature, and increasingly human beings too, only technologically — that is, we see nature and people merely as raw material for technical operations. Heidegger seeks to illuminate this phenomenon and to find a way of thinking by which we might be saved from its controlling power. We might escape this bondage; Heidegger argues, not by rejecting technology, but by perceiving its danger.
– Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics.
Born: September 26, 1889, Meßkirch, Germany
Died: May 26, 1976, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
