Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature

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Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature

David Rothenberg

University of California Press, c1993

  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

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.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780520080553

Description

"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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  • NCID
    BA20880512
  • ISBN
    • 0520080548
    • 0520080556
  • LCCN
    92039341
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berkeley
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 256 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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