The Age of the World Picture

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The Age of the World Picture is a philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger that analyzes how, in modernity, the world comes to be understood and dominated as a representable “picture” for human subjects.

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instanceOf philosophical essay
work by Martin Heidegger
arguesThat in modernity the world is grasped primarily as a representable picture for a human subject
modern science presupposes the world as a set of objects for calculation and control
the dominance of representation transforms the way beings appear
the essence of modernity is not technological devices but a specific understanding of being
author Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED
centralConcept calculative thinking
domination of beings
modern subjectivity
objectification of the world
scientific representation
setting-upon of beings
world as picture
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticizes Cartesian subject–object metaphysics
modern scientific worldview
reduction of being to representation
discipline philosophy
influencedField art theory
critical theory
hermeneutics
media theory
philosophy of technology
mainTopic enframing
history of being
metaphysics
modernity
representation
subject–object relation
technology
world picture
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Die Zeit des Weltbildes NERFINISHED
philosophicalMovement existentialism
phenomenology
philosophicalQuestion how representation structures human relation to beings
how the world becomes a picture in modernity
what characterizes the essence of modernity
philosophicalSchool Heideggerian philosophy
philosophicalTradition continental philosophy NERFINISHED
relatedWork Being and Time NERFINISHED
The Origin of the Work of Art NERFINISHED
The Question Concerning Technology NERFINISHED
subdiscipline ontology
philosophy of history
timePeriodDiscussed modern age
viewsModernityAs epoch of the world as picture

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