Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature
Author:   David Rothenberg
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520080553


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 October 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature


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Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature-the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan.

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Author:   David Rothenberg
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520080553


ISBN 10:   0520080556
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 October 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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"""Convincing and well-written, this book should be read by all of us.""--Anna Otten, ""The Antioch Review"


Convincing and well-written, this book should be read by all of us. --Anna Otten, The Antioch Review


Author Information

David Rothenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His latest book, Wild Ideas, was published in 1995.

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