The perils of invention : lying, technology, and the human condition / Roger Berkowitz, ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berkowitz, Roger, 1968- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truthfulness and falsehood--Congresses.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Technology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Technology.

Democracy--Congresses.

Democracy.

Human beings--Congresses.

Human beings.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; Chicago : Black Rose Books, [2022]

Summary:

"The Perils of Invention is based on three Hannah Arendt Center Conferences: "Human Being in an Inhuman Age," "Lying and Politics," and "Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age without Facts." Contributions written for these conferences are placed alongside many new essays that reflect on the ideas they raised. The result is a freshly invigorated investigation into these critical and timely themes. The authors have diverse backgrounds--Arendt scholars, public intellectuals, novelists, journalists, and business people--and include Uday Mehta, Marrianne Constable, Nicholson Baker, George Kateb, Marianne Constable, Linda M.G. Zerilli, Peg Birmingham, Davide Panagia, and many others."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Truthtelling

When Reality Wobbles / Roger Berkowitz

Democracy and Untruth / George Kateb

Fact-Checking and Truth-Telling in an Age of Alternative Facts / Linda M.G. Zerilli

When Words Cease to Matter / Marrianne Constable

Supplement to When Words Cease to Matter / Marianne Constable

Show Me the Birth Certificate! How America's Internet-Enabled Conspiracist Media Culture Is Destroying American Politics / Jonathan Kay

Why Are We So Matter of Fact About the Facts? / Peg Birmingham

Is Lying a Political Virtue? / Uday Singh Mehta

When Telling the Truth Demands Courage / Wolfgang Heuer

Arendt's Eichmann: Murderer, Idealist, Clown / Jerome Kohn

Human Being in an Inhuman Age

Singularity and the Human Condition / Roger Berkowitz

Martin Heidegger and Gunther Anderson Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism / Babette Babich

Political Thinking in an UnHuman Age / Davide Panagia

Some Notes on How We Should Imagine Human Beings in an Inhuman Age / Rob Rieman

Machines / Nicholson Baker

Drones and the Question of the Human / Roger Berkowitz

The Rhetoric of Sustainability: Human, All Too Human / Marianne Constable.

Notes:

Based on three Hannah Arendt Center Conferences: "Human Being in an Inhuman Age," "Lying and Politics," and "Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age without Facts" held at Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Perils of invention.

ISBN:

9781551647630

155164763X

9781551647616

1551647613

OCLC:

1140781274