Alternative modernity in Martin Heidegger’s works

Abstract

This article intends not only to comment on Heidegger’s question of technology, but also to designate technics as the sign of the rationalization of the world. A confrontation is then required against the technical world, in which it is inscribed the whole history of western metaphysics. This tradition, with the arrival of the technology age, proves to be nihilist, and, as such, demands from Heidegger, especially in his Contributions to philosophy (of the Event), to overcome the whole western tradition into another beginning. It is also considered that it is particularly in Modernity where the outcomes of the western rationality are most perceived, which conflates with the liberal order that reigns today. Therefore, we can contemplate the political dimension in Heidegger’s thought, in its broadest sense, and then to propose a confrontation with the whole western tradition, which blooms completely in the technological world and in the domination of Liberalism.