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10 produkter
Holding On to Reality
The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
E-bok, 2007
531 kr
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Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the …
Holding On to Reality
The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
Häftad, 2000
245 kr
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In the late-1990s people hear constantly about the "information revolution". The 24-hour news channels and dizzying Internet technologies bombard people with facts and pictures from around the globe. But what kind of a "revolution" is this? How has information really changed from what it was ten …
Crossing the Postmodern Divide
Häftad, 1993
254 kr
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In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of …
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life
A Philosophical Inquiry
Häftad, 1987
368 kr
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Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the …
Real American Ethics
Taking Responsibility for Our Country
E-bok, 2010
612 kr
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America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural …
Crossing the Postmodern Divide
E-bok, 2013
493 kr
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In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society''s ills to every sphere of …
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life
A Philosophical Inquiry
E-bok, 2009
796 kr
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Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the …
Real American Ethics
Taking Responsibility for Our Country (16pt Large Print Edition)
Häftad, 2011
442 kr
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Power Failure
Christianity in the Culture of Technology
E-bok, 2003
192 kr
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We live in a culture shaped and fueled by technology. Usually we equate access to technology with opportunity and the chance to pursue "the good life." Power Failure raises some crucial, if disconcerting, questions about technology: If technology liberates us, what kind of liberation does it …
Moral Cosmology
On Being in the World Fully and Well
Inbunden, 2024
995 kr
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A moral cosmology was the ordinary background knowledge of prescientific peoples, who took the divinity and the moral rules of the heavenly bodies for granted. That unified world view was disrupted by the European Enlightenment, which divided moral cosmology into physics and ethics: physics tells …
