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> Instead, Heidegger compels us to do something much harder: to see the world as it is being reframed by technology, and then to consciously reclaim or reweave
by TimorousBestie 1y ago
> Instead, Heidegger compels us to do something much harder: to see the world as it is being reframed by technology, and then to consciously reclaim or reweave the strands of meaning that risk being flattened.
As a call to action this is inadequate. I have no idea what this is persuading me to do.
If I dig into how Heidegger solved this problem in his own life, well, I don’t think that should be replicated.
- daseiner1 1y ago"The Question Concerning Technology" [1] mentioned in this piece is dense but can be understood by the literate layman, I think, with patience and a bit of work. Re: "call to action", part of Heidegger's project by my read is to interrogate such phrases. I think he would refute that "action" is what we need and that orienting ourselves towards the world in terms of "action" is obscuring the Question of Being. He himself offers no real way out. In his posthumously published Der Spiegel interview [2] he himself says "only a God can save us". I assume you're making a snide reference to his involvement with Nazism, which I'm not going to attempt to downplay or respond to here. He himself in his later life, however, went and lived a humble life in the Black Forest. Can or should we all "return to the land"? No. But his writing certainly has expanded my view of the world and my "image of thought". He is a worthwhile study. How to Read Heidegger [3] is a great primer for any who may be interested. [1] https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Question%20Concerning%20Technology.pdf https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Quest... [2] https://www.ditext.com/heidegger/interview.html https://www.ditext.com/heidegger/interview.html [3] https://a.co/d/dK5dp2t https://a.co/d/dK5dp2t P.S. just noticed/remembered that my username is a Heidegger reference. heh.
- gchamonlive 1y agoLeave passivity behind. You should put work into understanding what's required of you. This is why it's so easy to fall back to passivity, but there are things that must be done just because it's the right thing to do. Doing anything other than that is akin to committing philosophical suicide.
- TimorousBestie 1y agoI don’t think I have an ethical duty to parse obscurantist nonsense.
- daseiner1 1y agoContempt prior to investigation ought not be a point of pride, I think.
- viccis 1y agoThere's nothing obscure about that. You might be out of the habit of consuming challenging material, but it's definitely not a good response to react reflexively with contempt for something that takes a moment of thought to understand. There's already enough vulgar anti-intellectualism in society right now without adding to it.
- gchamonlive 1y agoIf that's obscurantist nonsense you aren't going to get far with Heidegger.