Further Reflections on Heidegger, Technology, and the Everyday

Bibliographic Data

ID20360670
AuthorsHubert L Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley), Charles Spinosa (Miami University)
Year2003
Volume23
Issue5
Pages339-349
Publication date2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Science Technology & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0270-4676 • E-ISSN: 1552-4183
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0270467603259868
OpenAlexW2087698761
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited2

This article traces the trajectory of Heidegger’s thinking about technology over the course of what is considered to be his early, middle, and late periods. Over the course of the years, Heidegger’s concerns moved from somewhat conventional concerns over the consumerism technology entails, and the damage it causes to the environment, to the more complex position that technicity distorts human nature with an accompanying loss of meaning. The real danger, he said, is not the destruction of nature or culture, nor selfindulgent consumerism, but a new totalizing style of practices that would restrict our openness to people and things by driving out all other styles of practice that enable us to be receptive to realty

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Consumerism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literature · Openness to experience · Political science · Sociology · Digital Media and Philosophy · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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