Oswald Spengler y Friedrich Georg Jünger o la crítica de la edad mecánica

Abstract

In the philosophy of technique, the positions of Oswald Spengler and
Friedrich Georg Jünger agree critically anticipate the course of the
mechanical age. The first, in parallel with his work The Decline of the
West, in 1931 throws the first suspicion on the idea of technical
progress, while the second, in the years of World War II, composes a
radically inimical to the mechanization of the world picture. In both,
against modern optimism, exercise machines industrialism systematic
destruction of nature. Despite the epistemological limitations of their
analysis, both the one and the other not open a humanistic
understanding of the technique and its consequences in human
existence, that only in our time - already post-mechanics - become
evident.