Abstract
This essay deals with Heidegger’s confrontation with the tragic poets, seeking to show how it
developed in light of the ‘question concerning technology’. Already beginning with his reading of
Aeschylus as it unfolds in the 1933 Rektoratsrede, Heidegger refers to Greek tragedy to think about the
relationship between techne and Wissen, the dimension of knowledge as an instrumental intelligent action
capable of imposing its visible form on the emerging being. A same conceptual network, is also to be
found in the Heideggerian reading of Sophocles’ Antigone (Introduction to Metaphysics). With the addition
that in the 1935 lecture the thematization of human technical action is explicitly connected not only to
the topic of the work of art, but also to that of violence, from both sides—of being that manifests itself
unconditionally, and of Dasein that sets out to violently impose its own action on the manifestation of
being in order to determine it according to its own will. The paper investigates the dense web of cross-
references that metaphysically articulates the relationship between technology and knowledge, finally
seeking to see how this relationship is also witnessed in its most current form, that of information
technology.