Ontological dispositive

Agambenian readings of the philosophy of technique in Heidegger

Abstract

The notion of technique plays an important role in the philosophy of Martin Heiedegger. Since Being and Time, with the category of instrumentality, the technique comes out as a kind of destiny of the being. This paper presents a reading of The question concerning technology from the german philosopher in the perspective of Agamben’s archaeology of ontology. The research will show up that recognizing the Heideggerian notion of Ge-Stell as part of the semantic field of the Agambenian dispositive indicates the possibility of tracing the also theological history of development of the technique. Furthermore, it will be possible to underline that the Heideggerian concept do not handle the previous notion of instrumentality already present in the work of Thomas Aquinas, and which will become important for Agamben to understand the technique as an operation of the live body by the dispositives of subjectivation.

Keywords: Ontology. Ge-Stell. Metaphysics. Technology. Instrumentality.