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Heidegger

Heidegger & Faulkner Against Modern Technology

Bob James sees similarities in the two writers’ dark perceptions of industrialisation.

In December 1941, William Faulkner mailed his New York publisher the fourth and final part of a forty-thousand-word short story from his home in Mississippi. In a separate note, Faulkner apologized to the publisher for being late with the manuscript, but said “there was more meat in it than I thought.” ‘The Bear’ – soon to become the most famous of Faulkner’s short works – appeared seven months later as part of Go Down Moses And Other Stories, in May 1942.

Eleven years later, in November 1953, Martin Heidegger stood before an audience of students and teachers at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and delivered a lecture he had reworked from a talk delivered four years previously to a group of businessmen in Bremen. Published the following year in a brief collection of essays and lectures, ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ would soon become one of the philosopher’s best-read and most-talked about shorter pieces.

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