Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature

Author(s)

• Rothenberg, David

Bibliographic Information

Hand's end : technology and the limits of nature

David Rothenberg

University of California Press, c1993

• : pbk

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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Details

• 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
• Classification:
  • LCC : T14
  • DC20 : 601
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Technology -- Philosophy