Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature
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Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature
University of California Press, c1993
- : pbk
Available at 24 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252) and index
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ISBN 9780520080546
Description
Offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental manner in which humans experience and define nature. The author examines human inventions, from the water wheel to the atomic bomb, demonstrating how these technological advances have been manipulated to submit to human needs and desires.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520080553
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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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