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Autore |
Böhme Gernot |
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Titolo |
Invasive technification [[electronic resource] ] : critical essays in the philosophy of technology / / Gernot Böhme ; translated by Cameron Shingleton |
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London, : Bloomsbury Academic, [2012] |
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ISBN |
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1-4411-3402-6 |
1-283-73607-1 |
1-4411-9465-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Technology - Philosophy |
Technology - Moral and ethical aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Invasive technification; The philosophy of technology; Chapter 2 Science, technology, civilization; Civilization in the age of technoscience; Knowledge society; Trust in modernity; Free scientific enquiry and its limits; Borderline situations in technological civilization; Chapter 3 Understanding technology: Use and entertainment; Technical gadgetry; Technology in the life of an everyday philologist; Chapter 4 The technification of human relations; Technostructures: Society and nature |
Anthropological change in a technological worldThe technification of perception; Genetics, biotechnology and human self-understanding; Chapter 5 The technification of nature; Artificial nature; Nature in the age of mechanical reproduction; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Critique of Technology; Guided by an interest in rational conditions; Computers in schools: Critical reflections on culture, technology and education; Thinking anti-cyclically; Cultural resources for coping with technology; Conclusion; Appendix; The last man as Übermensch; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5 |
Chapter 6Appendix; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Technology has extended its reach to the humanbody, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants andtechnological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sensetoo. Technological infrastructure and the institutions of a technified society todaydetermine what perception is, how we communicate and what forms of humanrelationship with the natural world are possible. A fundamental new conceptionof technology is urgently needed. Technology can no longer be seen as a meansfor efficiently attaining pre-established ends. Rather, it must be seen as a total structure whi |
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