Martin Heidegger

Selected writings

Heidegger's writings on technology

• Martin Heidegger, "Die Frage nach der Technik", in Gestalt und Gedanke: ein Jahrbuch, Bd. 3, ed. Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Kunste, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1954, pp 70-108; repr. in Vorträge und Aufsätze, Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1954. (in German). Reprinted in Die Technik und die Kehre, Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1962, pp 1-36; and in Gesamtausgabe: I. Abt. Bd. 7: Vorträge und Aufsätze, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000, pp 5-36 ("Das Ding" appears there on pp 165-187). In the 1962 book, the following prefatory note appears regarding two essays, "Die Frage nach der Technik" [The Question Concerning Technology] and "Die Kehre" [The Turning]: "Under the title 'Insight into That Which Is', the author gave, on 1 December 1949, in the Club at Bremen, four lectures, which were repeated without alterations on 25-26 March 1950 at Bühlerhöhe. The titles were 'Das Ding' [The Thing], 'Das Gestell' [En­framing], 'Die Gefahr' [The Danger], 'Die Kehre' [The Turning]. The first lecture was given in an expanded version on 6 June 1950, before the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. The second lecture was given on 18 November 1955, also in an expanded version, under the title 'The Question Concerning Tech­nology' in the series entitled The Arts in the Technological Age. The present volume repeats this text unaltered. The third lecture remains still unpublished. The fourth lecture, 'The Turning', is published here for the first time according to the first unaltered version."
  • "La question de la technique", trans. André Préau, in Heidegger, Essais et conferences, Paris: Gallimard, 1958, pp 9-48. (in French) [1] [2]
  • "The Thing", trans. Albert Hofstadter, in Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. & intro. Albert Hofstadter, New York: Harper & Row, 1971, pp 165-186; new ed., 1975, pp 163-182; new ed., 2001, pp 161-180.
  • "Spørsmålet om teknikken", in Heidegger, Oikos og techne: spørsmålet om teknikken og andre essays, trans. Arnfinn Bø-Rygg, Johan Grundt Tanum, 1973; new ed., Oslo: Aschehoug, 1996. (in Norwegian)
  • "La questione della tecnica", trans. Gianni Vattimo, in Heidegger, Saggi e discorsi, Milan: Mursia, 1976, pp 5-27. (in Italian) [3]
    • "La cosa", pp 109-124.
  • "The Question Concerning Technology", in Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt, New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1977, pp 3-35.
    • "The Turning", pp 36-49.
  • "La pregunta por la técnica", trans. Salvador Mas Torres, Anales del Seminario de Metafísica 24, Madrid, 1990, pp 129-162. (in Spanish) [4]
  • "Vopros o technike" [Вопрос о технике], trans. V.V. Bibichin (В. В. Бибихин), in Heidegger, Vremya i bytie: staty i vystupeniya [Время и бытие: Статьи и выступления], Moscow: Respublika, 1993, pp 221-238, n420-423. (in Russian)
  • "La pregunta por la técnica", in Heidegger, Filosofía, ciencia y técnica, 3rd ed., intro. Francisco Soler and Jorge Acevedo, Santiago de Chile: Universitaria, 1997, pp 111-148. (in Spanish)
  • "Otázka techniky", trans. Jiří Michálek, Jana Kružíková and Ivan Chvatík, in Heidegger, Věda, technika a zamyšlení, Prague: Oikoymenh, 2004, pp 7-35. (in Czech)
  • "A questão da técnica", trans. Marco Aurélio Werle, Scientiae studia 5:3 (2007), São Paulo, pp 375-398. (in Brazilian Portuguese) [5]
  • "Tekniikan kysyminen", in Heidegger, Tekniikka ja käänne, trans. Vesa Jaaksi, Tampere: Eurooppalaisen filosofian seura, 2007. (in Finnish) [6] [7]

On Heidegger

• Chris Greenwald, "Photography as Art in Heidegger's Philosophy", Episteme 3 (May 1992), pp 13-22.
• Erich Hörl, "Die offene Maschine. Heidegger, Günther und Simondon über die technologische Bedingung", MLN 123 (2008), pp 632-655. (in German)
• Lucas Introna, "A Fundamental Critique of the Technological Attitude", part of "Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Michael Wheeler, "Martin Heidegger", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Iain Thomson, "Heidegger's Aesthetics", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

See also

• Friedrich Kittler
• Cultural techniques