The Nature Of The Technology - An Investigation Of Historical Materialism

By examining the essence of modern technology,my article is undertaking to unveil the crisis of contemporary civilization.According to Nietzsche,the modern civilization and the existence of human beings have already been out of control;and this circumstance,so far as it shows to us,is not only the doomed consequence brought by industrialization,but also the very fate of our world.Marx's thinking on modern technology begins with "industry" and "civil society",also the process of real material production and perceptual exchanges activity viz.technology,according to Marx.Technology,as an objective activity(gegenstandlich),is thoroughly alienated in the capitalism production.Both of new perceptual consciousness and innovation of the objective activity would be generated by discarding (aufheben) the private ownership.Heidegger's critic on the essence of technology is based on traditional western ontology.As a way of thinking,ontology fulfills itself in the reality of technology,however on the other hand exhausts itself in the movement of science-technology-business.Therefore,Heidegger tries to inform us the possibility of a non-technical bearing of existence(Alstheia) and the possibility of a un-ontological thinking.