Tensions between the Technological World and the Life-World

Abstract

There is a scission between man and nature inscribed in all the aspects of life. The modern civilization is in crisis at various levels: environment, culture, meaning, technique and the way man inhabits and creates habitat. The modern technique has been introduced by the hand of science and the economy under the name technology: it is a form of techne that has been distanced from its origins, and has passed from the creation and invention to a sort of repeatability, permitting creation only under the conditions and ideals established by an economic model. While techne is understood in a life-world, in a place with space and time, the modern technique is believed separated from it. Hence, a turn in this thinking-inhabiting towards techne is proposed in order to achieve a re-meeting with the life-world.