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Sojourns in the new world : reflections on technology / edited and Introduced by Tom Darby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darby, T., Author.
- Series:
- Carleton library series ; 138.
- Carleton Library Series ; Number 138
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa, Ontario : Carleton University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays represents a reflective inquiry into the way in which our world is set apart from its past, its present defined and its destiny shaped by technology. The contributors tackle the subject from different perspectives within the fields of philosophy and politics.
- Contents:
- Reflections on Technology: An Excursus as Introduction / Tom Darby
- Chapter One: Hegelian Imperialism / Barry Cooper
- Chapter Two: Politics, Ideology an d Technology: A Perspective on the New World / Jon Alexander and Tom Darby
- Chapter Three: Nihilism , Politics and Technology / Tom Darby
- Chapter Four: Life Against History / Arthur Kroker
- Chapter Five: Ancients and Moderns, Technique, Cybernetics and Entropy / Namir Khan
- Chapter Six: Rationality and Reduction: The Roots of Modernity / Wolfgang Koemer
- Chapter Seven: Imperial Humanism : Habermas's Interest Theory of Knowledge / Richard Hamilton
- Chapter Eight: The Silence of the Other New World or Hysterias and Hallucinations from Hegel to the Tui Intellectuals / Michael.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-8154-5
- OCLC:
- 890934504
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