The sense of Machination (Machenshaft) in Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology

Abstract

This article proposes to be a brief clarification on the issue of Machination (Machenshaft) with which Heidegger worked in his texts after Being and Time. This is a problem that, according to the philosopher, stems from the metaphysical structure of Western thought, that is, from the assumption of the Being as an entity of the being. For Heidegger, Philosophy as Metaphysics, historically, since Modernity, has been thinking of Being as a product (manufacture) of a representative consciousness: man as the Modern Subject represents the Whole of beings as an object to serve this consciousness. This power imposed by Man on himself, on Nature, on things, on knowledge; finally, on the All, it has a planetary Machination as a means of consolidation. As an invisible foundation of this modern and contemporary thinking, Machination takes us away, making us hostages of ourselves.