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Title:: Criticism and transcending: modern engineering and subject metaphysics

Author(s):: GAO Hai-qing; YAO Yu-chen; School of Marxism, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, Guangdong, China;  Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Keywords:: modern engineering; subject metaphysics; existential philosophy; practical philosophy; political dimensionality

Abstract:: From the perspective of modern metaphysics, it’s discovered that the essence of modern engineering is closer to “Gestell” called by Heidegger than the essence of modern technology. According to Heidegger’s existential philosophy, transcending modern engineering as “Gestell” can only start from aesthetic dimensionality. Both Heidegger and Marcuse paid great attention to art, this kind of demasking mode, but in this period taking modern engineering thought and engineering method as belief, art is excluded to the edge. Through literature interpretation, its discovered that political demasking existed in both of the two ideologists theories. The difference lies in that Heidegger didn’t take politics as a kind of demasking mode while Marcuse specified it along Marxism. In recent years, Feenbergs technical design thought promoted Marcuse’s technology criticism. As the political dimensionality of modern engineering is emphasized again, the possibility of transcending modern engineering comes forth from the development of Marxism.