Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
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Zhang Xianglong
Abstract
Heidegger maintains that the root of modern technology, like that of all other technologies, lies in technē. However, because the art dimension of technē is suppressed in modern technology, the essence of this technology becomes a Gestell (fixed frame) that enforces product-making, and thus drives technology beyond the control of human beings. The more fundamental reason underlying this “frame-becoming” nature is “the mathematical” that emerges in ancient Greece, which, through the Cartesian subject-object dichotomy, turns the world into the images represented by the subject, and things into definite objects. To escape the dictatorship of the Gestell, it is necessary to re-realize the art-dimension of technē in modern technology, i. e. to let the gentle granting nature of the enowning (Ereignis, event) re-master technology. In this respect, both Heidegger and Heisenberg were inspired by or at least resonated with Lao Zi or Zhuang Zi’s Dao. Confucians will greatly appreciate the critique of modern technology by Heidegger, and especially his view of returning “home” to overcome the possible dangers brought about by technology. However, from the perspective of Confucianism, Heidegger’s critique contains some shortcomings: for example, his ignorance of the individualistic impact in the Gestell and his unidirectional “ontological difference,” which leads him to a view of “home” that lacks “family” and therefore renders his solution loose and rootless. Only an organic community originated in the family, be it Confucian or Amish, can effectively reduce the control of modern technology over the human being.
© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- Preface
- Embodiment
- I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
- The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
- Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
- Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
- What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
- Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
- II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
- “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
- Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
- On Bodily Resonance
- III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
- Aesthetic Turn
- Felt-Bodily Resonances
- Body, Language and Mediality
- Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
- The Metaphor of the Net
- IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
- “I” “here” and “you” “there”
- Living in the Moment
- Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
- V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
- From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
- Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
- Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
- VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
- The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
- On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
- VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
- Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
- Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
- Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
- Is “Intention” Present or Not?
- The First Philosophical Word
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- Preface
- Embodiment
- I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
- The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
- Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
- Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
- What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
- Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
- II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
- “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
- Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
- On Bodily Resonance
- III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
- Aesthetic Turn
- Felt-Bodily Resonances
- Body, Language and Mediality
- Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
- The Metaphor of the Net
- IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
- “I” “here” and “you” “there”
- Living in the Moment
- Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
- V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
- From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
- Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
- Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
- VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
- The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
- On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
- VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
- Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
- Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
- Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
- Is “Intention” Present or Not?
- The First Philosophical Word
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
