Being and Technology

One: Preparation for the Question Concerning Modern Technology.- I. Beginnings: $$T\varepsilon '\chi \nu \eta$$ and the Origin of Modern Technology.- A. The Primordial Notion of $$\Phi \upsilon '\sigma \iota \zeta$$.- B. $$\Phi \upsilon '\sigma \iota \zeta$$ and $$\Lambda o'\gamma o\zeta$$ (Heraclitus and Parmenides).- 1. Heraclitus and the $$\Lambda o'\gamma o\zeta$$.- 2. Parmenides.- C. The Notion of $$T\varepsilon '\chi \nu \eta$$ (Sophocles' Chorus).- 1. Stage One.- 2. Stage Two.- 3. Stage Three.- D. The Notion of $$T\varepsilon '\chi \nu \eta$$ as Responsive "Wissen".- II. The Platonic $$^,I\delta \varepsilon '\alpha$$ and $$^,I\delta \varepsilon '\nu$$.- A. The Platonic $$^,I\delta \varepsilon '\alpha$$ "Affinity" and "Distance".- B. A More Appropriate Interpretation of the Relationship $$^,I\delta \varepsilon '\alpha { - ^{{\text{ }},}}I\delta \varepsilon '\iota \nu $$.- C. The "Primacy of Beings" ("Vorrang des Seienden").- III. Descartes: The "Beginning" of Modern Technology.- A. The Notion of "Reality".- B. The Second Determination of the Notion of Reality.- C. The Cartesian Task.- 1. Preliminary.- 2. The Execution of the Task.- IV. Nietzsche and the "Consummation" of Metaphysics.- A. First Approximation to the Notion of the Will to Power.- B. The Will to Power as the Most Radical Subjectivity.- C. The Will to Power and the Eternal Return of the Same.- D. The "Consummation" and the "End" of Metaphysics.- Two: First Approach toward the Question of the Essence of Modern Technology.- I. Remarks concerning Some Earlier Texts.- A. A Text from Nietzsche II (pp. 20-29).- B. "Seinsverlassenheit und Irrnis".- II. Texts from "Wozu Dichter".- A. The Will (der Wille) and Human Willing (Wollen).- B. Human Willing.- C. The "Danger" and the "Turn".- III. The Essay "Die Frage nach der Technik".- A. "Technology Is Not Identical with the Essence of Technology".- B. The "Correct" Notion of Technology and the Analysis of Causality ($$T\varepsilon '\chi \eta$$).- C. Modern