Author
Langstaff; Holly
Year
2023
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Language
English
Pages
30
ISBN
978-1-39951-547-4
Last Update
23-Sep-2025
Keywords
Language & Literature ; European Studies
The Greek term techne refers to both what is understood today by technology and what we call art, poetry or literature. To oppose art and the utilitarian is to imply that there are two states or varieties of language: the one reserved for artistic, poetic or literary expression and the other given over to utilitarian communication and subject to a contrasting logic, economy or set of conventions that more clearly belong to what we know as modern technology. This division maps on to the distinction made by Heidegger between truth as a fundamental mode of revealing by which the world...
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