Question concerning technology: Heidegger's understanding of modernity

Abstract

In this essay Heidegger's question concerning technology will be analyzed against the background of the basic conceptions of his later philosophy. The question concerning technology in this framework will be analyzed in its constitutive elements, which will be presented as integral parts of Heidegger's inceptive thinking. The meaning of posing of the question concerning technology is understood here as one of few accentuated themes of Heidegger's new beginning in philosophy.