Care in technology / / Xavier Guchet

• Autore: Guchet Xavier
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 610.28
• Soggetto topico: Medical technology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Care and Technology: An Anthropological Question -- 1.1. From mastery to care -- 1.1.1. Making good use of technology, anticipating its potential risks: two possible examples of care in technology? -- 1.1.2. Do we need to learn to master our technological mastery? -- 1.1.3. The limits of the externalist approach to technological regulation -- 1.2. In what sense can technologies be "inherently" caregiving? -- 1.2.1. Can there be an intrinsic morality of technology? -- 1.2.2. Technology and care: a difficult articulation -- 1.3. Taking care of living beings -- 1.3.1. Care and technology: from ethics to anthropology -- 1.3.2. Caring about valuating living beings -- 1.3.3. The difficulty of thinking technology from life -- 1.4. Transition -- Chapter 2: Technology and Life: Analysis of a Divorce -- 2.1. Body, gestures, technology, production -- 2.1.1. Work without skill -- 2.1.2. Control and discipline of technology -- 2.1.3. A rupture in the conception of technology: the divorce of technology and life -- 2.2. The intellectualist conception of technology: the Kantian turning point -- 2.2.1. Difficulty in thinking of the artisan's activity -- 2.2.2. Technology excluded from the field of aesthetics -- 2.2.3. Technology, a synthetic activity without representation and without rule -- 2.3. Transition -- Chapter 3: The Conditions of Care in Technology -- 3.1. Vitalist approaches to technology -- 3.1.1. The concept of technological evolution: contributions and limits with regard to care -- 3.1.2. Technology as an "organ projection": contributions and limits with regard to care -- 3.1.3. The utopia of Erewhon: analysis of an aporia. First condition of care in technology. ; 3.2. Philosophical anthropology, a promising way to articulate care and technology? -- 3.2.1. Plessner's biological anthropology: redefining the concepts of organ and organism -- 3.2.2. Industrialization, work, and life. Critique of modernity in Gehlen -- 3.3. The organ-instrument. Second condition of care in technology -- 3.3.1. From the organ as part of the organism to the organ as an instrument with use-value -- 3.3.2. Putting the individual point of view first in the ethical evaluation of technology -- 3.4. From anthropology to aesthetics -- 3.4.1. Is it enough to recognize that humans "belong to nature" to orient technology towards care for nature? -- 3.4.2. Creating a new perception. Fourth condition of care in technology -- 3.5. Transition -- Chapter 4: Design, Technology and Life -- 4.1. At the sources of design for life -- 4.1.1. The premises of design -- 4.1.2. Overcoming the conflict of arts and industry: the rational aesthetics of Paul Souriau -- 4.1.3. Industry and the fragmentation of experience: anthropology and instrumentality in Dewey's work -- 4.1.4. Life as judge of technology. Lewis Mumford -- 4.1.5. Towards a design for life: László Moholy-Nagy -- 4.1.6. Opening -- 4.2. Towards responsible and caring innovation -- 4.2.1. Technical activities and care: practical lessons from ancient China and Greece -- 4.2.2. The square of care in technological design -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Interdisciplinarity, Science and Humanities -- EULA.
• Titolo autorizzato: Care in technology
• ISBN: 1-119-82139-8; 1-119-82140-1; 1-119-82138-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910555016603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II