An Analysis Of Andre Gorz’s View Of Technology

André Gorz is a famous French ecological Marxist thinker.His technical view reveals the root of the ecological environment crisis in Western capitalist countries,and provides ideas and plans for solving the ecological crisis and constructing a harmonious coexistence of man and nature..The formation of André Gorz’s view of technology is not only the product of the times,but also widely absorbed and inherited the thoughts of predecessors,such as Marxist natural view,Marx’s technological thought,Sartre’s existentialist thought,Frankfurt school’s social critical theory,etc.Is its direct theoretical source.Based on the starting point of "technological non-neutrality",Gorz pointed out that technology is affected by the economic rationality of modern Western capitalist society and alienated into a tool to control workers and society,which has caused many serious consequences.At the social level,the division of labor caused by technological alienation has led to multiple alienation of capitalist society,deepening the oppression and control of people;at the natural environment level,technological choice led to technological abuse,which greatly damaged the ecological environment and triggered a global ecological environment crisis.To solve these problems,the fundamental way is to transform capitalist technology,and build a lifestyle led by ecological rationality,and achieve the transcendence of capitalism through ecological socialism.Gorz’s view of technology upholds and develops Marx’s technical thoughts,enriches and develops Marx’s theory of labor alienation,and promotes the development of ecological Marxism.However,Gorz’s view of technology also has certain limitations,such as inconsistency in the understanding of capitalist technology and a tendency of “technological determinism”.The construction of an ecological socialist society has the nature of “utopia” and transforms capitalism.It is incomplete and compromised.In addition,Gorz’s view of technology also has certain reference significance for the construction of China’s ecological civilization.