Lorenzo C. Simpson

Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780415907712
• ISBN-10: 0415907713
• Artikelnr.: 21449237

Autorenporträt

Lorenzo C. Simpson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 The Question of Technology
Chapter 2 The Idea of Technological Rationality
Part 2 Science, Language and Experience
Chapter 3 Science, Language and Experience: Reflections on the Nature of Self-Understanding
Part 3 Technology, Meaning and Time
Chapter 4 Meaning and Time: An Essay on Technology
Part 4 On the Use and Abuse of Repetition for Critique
Chapter 5 The Use of Repetition for Critique
Chapter 6 The Abuse of Repetition for Critique
Chapter 7 Notes Towards the Trivialization of a Distinction: An Interlude on the Conversations of Modernity
Part 5 Conclusion
Chapter 8 Technology and the Conversations of Modernity: Postmodernism, Technology, Ethics and Time