Essai

The Disappearence of Presence

On Heidegger’s Paths for a “Magical” Hermeneutics of Medium and Truth

Libera Pisano

In this contribution I would like to investigate the conjunction between technology, media, language and aletheia – according to Heidegger’s understanding of this term – , while also shedding light on its connection to magic. Martin Heidegger is the German philosopher who offers the most rigorous reflection on the question of technology. In his famous conference The Question Concerning Technology [Die Frage nach der Technik] given in Munich in November 1953 and published in 1954, Heidegger expounds the famous thesis...