Ortega and Heidegger

This paper offers a comparative reading of José Ortega y Gasset’s and Martin Heidegger’s philosophies of technology within the context of modernity’s crisis and its impact on 20th-century thought. While Ortega views technology as a creative and existential extension of the human being, Heidegger problematizes it as a mode of revealing that, in modernity, reduces beings to mere utility. The study also connects their perspectives with Shoshana Zuboff’s contemporary critique of surveillance capitalism, highlighting how today’s digital technologies transform individuals into predictable data objects, marking a dangerous shift away from the humanistic ideals both philosophers sought to defend

Existentialism · Humanism · Ontology · Digital Education and Society · Philosophy and Phenomenology Studies · Spanish Philosophy and Literature