Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues
|
Buy Now
Confronting Disaster - An Existential Approach to Technoscience (Paperback, New)
Loot Price: R1,037
Discovery Miles 10 370
|
|
Confronting Disaster - An Existential Approach to Technoscience (Paperback, New)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Against Period Poverty
Total price: R1,057
Discovery Miles: 10 570
|
Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and
invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great
specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural
energy sources has led to an increased manipulation of atomic or
nuclear energy and regressive environmental policies, resulting in
a greater sense of danger for everyone. The promises of economic
globalization have, in some cases, been delivered, but in many
other ways globalization has created even greater gaps in social
and economic life. Despite the expansion of our productive and
technological capabilities, our workdays grow longer, not shorter.
We find ourselves in exile from our families, our friends, and from
other meaningful forms of social connection. And as 'freedom' is
bandied about in the popular press and media as the preeminent
global social value, it actually seems that the reigning
contemporary ethos of our time is stress and anxiety. While Raphael
Sassower's previous work has focused extensively on science and
technology, this book is significantly different. It is an urgent
commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional
Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents; a
culmination of many years of research and thought carefully
arranged into an extended essay on our contemporary social,
cultural, and existential orientation in the modern world. This
book is written for advanced graduate students, informed and
concerned citizenry, and especially the young student who, in the
face of mounting anxiety, must be able to make critical choices
towards an uncertain future.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.