Technology and the good life? / / edited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Philosophy; Technology - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: technology, morality, ethics, philosophy, virtue, machines, automation, albert borgmann, device paradigm, science, ecological restoration, design, agriculture, film, nostalgia, place, pragmatechnics, focaltechnics, character, cyberspace, farming, nature, postmodernism, nonfiction, consumption, constructivism, essentialism, temporal ambiguity, service, things, innovation, progress, social change, humanity, anthropology, sociology, environment, conservation
• Classificazione: CC 8280
• Altri autori: HiggsEric <1958-> LightAndrew <1966-> StrongDavid <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: I PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY TODAY 17 -- 1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology 19 -- David Strong and Eric Higgs -- 2. Philosophy of Technology. Retrospective and -- Prospective Views 38 -- Paul T Durbin -- II EVALUATING FOCAL THINGS 51 -- 3. Focal Things and Focal Practices 55 -- Lawrence Haworth -- 4. Technology and Nostalgia 70 -- Gordon G. BrittanJr. -- 5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform -- of Technology 89 -- Larry Hickman -- 6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemisse Betrachtungen: -- On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place 106 -- Andrew Light -- 7. On Character and Technology 126 -- Carl Mitcham -- III THEORY IN THE SERVICE OF PRACTICE 149 -- 8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things 153 -- Phillip R. Fandozzi -- 9. Farming as Focal Practice 166 -- Paul B. Thompson -- 10. Design and the Reform of Technology: -- Venturing Out into the Open 182 -- Jesse S. Tatum -- 11. Nature by Design 195 -- Eric Higgs -- IV EXTENSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES 213 -- 12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 219 -- Diane P Michelfelder -- 13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with -- Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace 234 -- Douglas Kellner -- 14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity 256 -- Mora Campbell -- 15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure -- and the Entrenchment of the Device 271 -- Thomas Michael Power -- 16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of -- Technology at the Crossroads 294 -- Andrew Feenberg -- 17. Philosophy in the Service of Things 316 -- David Strong -- V POSTSCRIPT 339 -- 18. Reply to My Critics 341 -- Albert Borgmann -- Afterword 371 -- Index 375.
• Sommario/riassunto: Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master? Technology and the Good Life? uses a careful collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial and influential ideas as a jumping-off point from which to address questions such as these about the role and significance of technology in our lives. Contributors both sympathetic and critical examine Borgmann's work, especially his "device paradigm"; apply his theories to new areas such as film, agriculture, design, and ecological restoration; and consider the place of his thought within philosophy and technology studies more generally. Because this collection carefully investigates the issues at the heart of how we can take charge of life with technology, it will be a landmark work not just for philosophers of technology but for students and scholars in the many disciplines concerned with science and technology studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Technology and the good life
• ISBN: 1-283-05825-1; 9786613058256; 0-226-33388-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814108003321
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