Martin Heidegger's Ambivalent Stance toward Modern Technology.

This article introduces a new perspective on Heidegger's thinking about modern technology as a mode of revealing, within the horizon of which everything that exists stands by as a resource. Thus understood, modern technology is a "danger" for Heidegger, first, because its totalizing logic threatens...

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Publicado en:Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 313 - 332
Autor principal: Mihkelsaar, Janar
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Publicado: Philosophy Documentation Center Spring2026
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