It is much longer than an essay, but I would highly recommend Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology. Now as inspired as the text is, it is not a light

It is much longer than an essay, but I would highly recommend Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology. Now as inspired as the text is, it is not a light read. But not all meaningful scholarly work needs to be written like a popular science novel. (I mean, ever try reading Gödel’s famous paper?) I read Heidegger in the context of a Philosophy seminar and frankly it helps having access to secondary sources for help. On a more positive note, Heidegger has only been called postmodernist in retrospect. At the time he was producing these essays and writings, there was no postmodernist jargon to lean on. So his writings are pleasantly free of words that only help to obscure.