In the Event of Words: Art, Technology, and Language in the Later Heidegger

For Heidegger, questioning technology is of the utmost difficulty. The questioning runs into danger if it addresses technology in terms of a problem to be solved, for this orders the questioning solely within the framework of that orientation which was to be set into question. The kind of questioning which responds to problems never really "sets into question," but rather fixes and secures that about which it questions. When questioning technology one is confronted with the danger that one will not in truth ask about technology but only execute its mandate. The "universal imposition" of technology is of such a completion in modernity that for the later Heidegger the question concerning it can scarcely be raised.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Vaughan, William Park

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schacht, Richard L.

• Philosophy
• Language, General

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9305724

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72600