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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN PHILOSOPHY EXISTENCE AND MA...

The aim of this work is to provide a preliminary analysis of a much more far-reaching
investigation into the relationship between technology and philosophy. In the context of the
contemporary German thought  the author compares the different positions of Karl Marx  Martin
Heidegger  Ernst and Friedrich Jünger  Arnold Gehlen and Gunther Anders. The term machine is
used precisely to mean that complex material device assembled in the last quarter of the 18th
century as a result of the definitive modern refinement of certain fundamental technologies 
i.e. metallurgy  precision mechanics and hydraulics. The machine discussed here arrived on the
scene of man's history when the processes of spinning and weaving were entrusted to
semi-automatic means  when the water wheels used in mills  hitherto always made of wood  were
supplanted by the metal levers of the steam engine  and especially when the steam engine was
connected to the weaving frames  to the metalworking hammers  and to other machines used to
manufacture other machines in an endless reiteration of assemblies and applications  the
enormous outcome of which is what subsequently came to be described as mass production. The
philosophers discussed here were also dealing with the type of machine described above and in
their works she we can identify three model images of this idea of machine. These images have
been drawn on at various times  also outside the realms of philosophy  and they still provide
the backdrop for our knowledge of the machine  which has circulated in a great variety of
languages.

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