麦克卢汉技术思想研究——兼及与雅斯贝斯技术思想的比较

Study on Marshall McLuhan's Technology Thought——And Comparison with Karl Jaspers's Technology Thought

作为20世纪著名文化思想家,麦克卢汉十分重视技术给社会历史带来的深刻影响。在麦克卢汉看来,(1)技术的实质乃是媒介,是人的延伸;(2)技术的变革带来文化的变迁;(3)技术变迁最重要的影响还包括:导致人们感知的变化和创造"环境"。和雅斯贝斯一样,他们都十分关注技术的社会文化意义,具有强烈的人文精神。麦克卢汉的深刻之处在于,他将技术视为社会的存在方式,超越了雅斯贝斯单纯的技术"工具论"范畴。

As a famous culture thinker in the 20th century, Marshall McLuhan attaches great importance to theprofound influence of technology on social history. In McLuhan＇s eyes, the nature of technology is medium, an extension of human ; technology revolutions bring cultural changes ; technology changes lead to the changes of human perception and create the ＂environment＂. Both Marshall McLuhan and Karl Jaspers focus on the social cultural significance of technology, which shows strong humanistic spirit. But McLuhan＇s technology thought is more, sincehe views technology as an existence state of society, exceeding Jaspers＇s pure ＂theory of tools＂.