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Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature /
"Hand's End offers a radical new look at technology as the fundamental way in which we experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Through history, says David Rothenberg, our view of the natural world has changed continually according to the new ways society has invented...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
Ã1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Latent Language
- 1. Unexpected Guile. Knowing through Making. Stir and Thrill. The Circle of Intent and Result. The Intention Moves. Relocating Infinity?
- 2. Extension's Order. Extensions of Action. Extensions of Thought. The Test. The Humanity Which Remains
- 3. Nature as Context. Aristotle Swims in Nature's River. Spinoza Sees End in Beginning. Bacon Turns Nature to Resource. Marx in So Many Mirrors. Heidegger Frames the Earth's Picture. The Myth and the Message. Artifice Diverts Nature in Time
- 4. Nature Is Made. Hands on the Lathe of Heaven. To Tear the Day to Shreds. Engines, Fuel for the Mind. The Machine Stops. Intricacy Looks at Silence. Viewing the Virtual
- 5. Before the End. Tools Unlovely to See. Reticent Destroyers. Between Utopia and Oblivion. Unwanted Heat. The Safety of Distance
- 6. Home and the World. The Tunnel under the Waterfall. Released to the Earth. The Pull of Opposites. Slicing the Strawberry. Blindness and Insight.