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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Gernot Böhme (Independent Scholar, Germany) , Dr Cameron Shingleton , Gernot B Hme , Gernot Bohme (Technical University of Darmstadt)Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.40cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9781441182944ISBN 10: 1441182942 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 25 October 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsPreface \ 1. Introduction \ 2. Science, Technology, Civilisation \ 3. Understanding Technology: Use and Entertainment \ 4. The Technification of Human Relations \ 5. The Technification of Nature \ 6. Critique of Technology \ Appendix: The Last Man as Übermensch \ IndexReviews'Boehme is a worthy successor to Ellul and Mumford, one who brings the critique of technology up to date by accounting for the recent explosion of new technologies undreamt of by his illustrious predecessors. He also goes beyond them in basing his analysis on a much more developed philosophical orientation focused on the effect of technology on Nature; and thus he is able to assess its invasive impact on human nature, on what we are as bodies and minds and what we might become under its influence. His book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in this issue, arguably the most important one that humanity has to face.' -- Harry Redner, author of 'Beyond Civilization: Society, Culture, and the Individual in the Age of Globalization'. Summing Up: Recommended. Science/technology and philosophy collections, upper-division undergraduates and above. -- T. Eastman, formerly, University of Maryland * CHOICE * Author InformationGernot Böhme was Professor of Philosophy at Darmstadt's Technische Univerität, Germany, between 1977 and 2002. His publications in English include Coping with Science (Westview, 1992) and Ethics in Context (Polity, 2001). Cameron Shingleton is a translator and lecturer at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |