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Our War on Ourselves : Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth / Willem H. Vanderburg.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanderburg, Willem H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Decision making--Social aspects.
- Decision making.
- Economic development--Sociological aspects.
- Economic development.
- Symbolism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Following his groundbreaking Labyrinth of Technology and Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, Willem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes. The work also illuminates how we can achieve a more balanced, livable, and sustainable future by combining technical and cultural perspectives in our educational and institutional settings."--Pub. desc.
- "Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena make significant contributions (as in the biological and cultural spheres). As a result, our civilization succeeds in its scientific and technical endeavours yet fails in dealing with communities and ecosystems.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Civilization of non-sense?
- 1. Symbolization: getting in touch with ourselves and the world
- 2: Desymbolization: losing touch with ourselves and the world
- 3: Colliding orders and the triumph of the real
- 4: The triumph of the technical order over cultural orders
- 5: Desymbolization and resymbolization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9980-9
- 1-4426-9979-5
- OCLC:
- 794619944
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