Heidegger on the Poietic 2 February 2026

Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics (Manheim translation)]

• Aber — die Philosophie macht ihrem Wesen nach die Dinge nie leichter, sondern nur schwerer.  

Heidegger, Einführung in die Metaphysik, 9

Recommended: 

Dahlstrom, “Heidegger’s Method“; Heidegger, What is a Thing?; Elden w/Axelos, „Mondialisation without the world„; Bambach, “Heidegger, Tragedy, and the Ethics of the Uncanny”; Babich, “On Pain and Tragic Joy” in Words and Blood, Like Flowers; Schürmann, “A Brutal Awakening to the Tragic Condition of Being”

Technology and the Poietic 27 January 2026

Reading Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture” pp. 115ff

Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” pp. 3ff 

Both readings may be found in Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology

Background: Plato, Sophist in the Jowett translation.

Recommended (not all related to Heidegger as such): 

Illich, “Guarding the Eye in the Age of the Show”

Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy

May, Heidegger’s Hidden Sources

Hui,  “The Computational Turn, or, a New Weltbild”

Anders, The Antiquatedness of the Human

Questioning and Heidegger’s ποίησις: On Heidegger, on Lecturing

Only if we think ποιεῖν and ποίησις in a Greek way, i.e., on the basis of Ἀλήθεια, can we intimate something of the possibility according to what we call “poetizing” was thought by the Greeks as ποίησις or “poesy.”

                                           — Martin Heidegger  

In the Greek language, the verb ποιεῖν and the noun ποίησις signify the activity which is called in English making or producing, whereas the verb πράττειν and the noun πράξις signify the activity that in English is called doing or acting. In Greek, ποιεῖν as an activity of making seems be more concerned with things than with people, whereas πράττειν doing or acting seems to be more concerned with people. 

                                          — Jacques Taminiaux 

Heidegger on Language, Technology, Thought