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Cambridge Journal of Economics Advance Access published online on May 29, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Economics, doi:10.1093/cje/bep021
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved.

Technology, objects and things in Heidegger

G Harman*

* American University in Cairo

Address for correspondence: Graham Harman, Department of Philosophy, American University in Cairo, AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt; email: graham@rinzai.com

Manuscript received September 29, 2008; final version received March 20, 2009.

Key Words: Martin Heidegger • Edmund Husserl • technology • objects • things

JEL classification:: 030

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.


   1. Introduction
 
Martin Heidegger is famous for his early analysis of tools, and equally famous for his later reflections on technology. This might suggest an easy literal reading of these themes in his work along the following lines: ‘Heidegger began his career fascinated by low-tech hardware such as hammers and drills, but later took an interest in advanced devices such as hydroelectric dams’. But such a literal interpretation would miss the point, since neither Heidegger's tool analysis nor his views on technology are limited to a narrow range of specific kinds of entities. When he speaks of ‘tools’, his analysis holds for trees and monkeys no less than for hammers; when he speaks of ‘technology’, he has little to tell us about specific high-tech instruments. In both cases he is more concerned with a general ontology than with a theory of tools or technology. Hence, this article will focus on the basic . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   2. The tool analysis
 

   3. Technology
 

   4. Objects and things
 

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