ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a summary of Heidegger's philosophy of technology. It focuses in particular on the enigmatic claim that technology is supremely perilous and for that very reason a source of salvation. Along the way it looks at the way the extra-technological aspects of his thought inform and condition his discourse on technology. Particular attention is paid to what Heidegger says about the sacred, ethics, ethology and art, and how his views on these things are factored into what he says about technology. It considers whether a determination of technology that conforms to Heidegger's thought is viable in practice, if so, whether adopting it would entail adjustments that twenty-first century humanity could accept in principle. The relevance of all this to what Heidegger says about technology being salvational in its essence is patent. This is the necessary consequence of replicating in mortal artefacts the same eu-mechania that is immanent in and operative through the emergence and Being-there of nature-made beings.
