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Der Spiegel Interview (1966/1976)
Heidegger's posthumously published interview containing his celebrated prediction that "only a god can save us" — and his less-cited prediction that cybernetics would replace philosophy.
On September 23, 1966, Martin Heidegger gave a long interview to Der Spiegel under the condition that it be published only after his death. The interview, published in May 1976 (five months after Heidegger's death in the Messkirch village where he was born), addressed the full range of his political and philosophical legacy. It contains two widely cited claims about technology and the future of thought. First, his statement that 'Only a god can save us' (Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten) — a declaration of the limits of human agency in the face of technological destining. Second, his prediction that cybernetics would replace philosophy — that the new fundamental science of optimization and control would determine and regulate all subsequent scientific thought.
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The interview was conducted by Rudolf Augstein and Georg Wolff at Heidegger's home in Freiburg. Its central purpose was to address Heidegger's 1933–34 rectorship at Freiburg and his membership in the Nazi Party — issues