"If you were convinced that by taking an object in your hands, you have to get behind the whole universe, you do not even have the hand to take it."

But we can see it in the persuasion that can be distinguished from all the rest, which is our complete answer in the way Severino, the essence of the technique that represents in the West the point of arrival of the alienation of the truth of being . Our time is therefore marked by the fate of the technique and by Severino, with an inflexible logical proceeding, analyzes the various aspects that in the western civilization reveal the dominance of the technique. Emanuele Severino is a philosopher, an academic and a composer. He taught theoretical philosophy at the University of Pavia (1951), philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (1954 - 1969). From 1970 he became a professor of theoretical philosophy, he directed the Institute of Philosophy (which later became the Department of Philosophy and Theory of Sciences and, today, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage) and teaches Logic, History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and Sociology at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. Subsequently he taught fundamental ontology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the San Raffaele Life-Health University of Milan. Academician of the Lincei and Cavaliere di Gran Croce, he has collaborated for several decades with Corriere della Sera.