Charles Explorer logo
🇬🇧

Concentration and camp as conditions for the happiness of an instructed man

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2020

Abstract

As regards our modern situation, Edmund Husserl speaks about the transformation of sense of the world into the machinery of the world (Weltmaschinerie). Husserl's own phenomenology as a consequent investigation of constitution is linked to the permanent collapse of sense in the technological structures.

In this sense, the twentieth century brings a totally new kind of experience and there is no coming back to the conception of history as a successive rationalization of the world. There is a paradox in the twentieth century that the products of human ratio act as inhuman.

Husserl's critique of the modern objectivism as a form of "lost rationality" allows us to understand that the incorporation into idealized structures constitutes the fundamental mode of being in modernity. It is important to be reckless here and see that the world as a machinery is the concentration camp, i.e., situation where human being is subjected to total control in idealized processes.