TECHNÉ, TECHNOLOGY AND HEIDEGGER’S CRITICISM OF THE METAPHYSICAL GOD

Abstract

One of the main concerns of the so-called Heidegger’s later philosophy rests upon modern technology and its instauration as the ‘consummation’ of metaphysics, the end of an historical process of mensuration and grasping of Being. Although already present in his seminal “Being and Time”, it is in the conference “The Question Concerning Technology” that the German philosopher builds the concept of technology beyond an instrumental and dispositive-oriented approach. For him, technology is the mode in which beings are disclosed as existing entities for the human being in contemporaneity, as passible of production, problematization, calculation and reproducibility. Heidegger points to this thinking as being the consummation of a history (Seingeschichte) of continuous apprehension of Being’s disclosure ignited with the Greeks through Plato. Departing from Heidegger’s destruction of metaphysics and his criticism of its modern expression, technology, this paper seeks to delineate a criticism of theology as this field developed itself within metaphysics and appears at the modern technology era, building upon heideggerian reflections over the mentioned texts and other works of his. This way, this paper wants to contribute to a post-metaphysical theology and understanding of God. The analysis also covers a significant range of literature review on heideggerian philosophy readers.