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Invasive technification : critical essays in the philosophy of technology /
Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense too. Technological infrastructure and the instutions of a technified society today determine what perce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2012], ♭2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Invasive technification
- The philosophy of technology
- 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
- 3. Understanding technology: Use and entertainment
- Technical gadgetry
- Technology in the life of an everyday philologist
- 4. The technification of human relations
- Technostructures: Society and nature
- Anthropological change in a technological world
- The technification of perception
- Genetics, biotechnology and human self-understanding
- 5. The technification of nature
- Artificial nature
- Nature in the age of mechanical reproduction
- Conclusion
- 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.