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The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet - Softcover

Tabachnick, David

 
9780802094698: The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802094694 ISBN 13: 9780802094698
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David Edward Tabachnick contends that this question may not be unique to contemporary society. Through an assessment of the great works of philosophy and politics, Tabachnick explores the largely unrecognized history of technology as an idea.

The Great Reversal takes the reader back to Aristotle's ancient warning that humanity should never allow technical thinking to cloud our judgment about what makes for a good life. It then charts the path of how we began to relinquish our deeply rooted intellectual and practical capacities that used to allow us to understand and regulate the role of technologies in our lives. As the rise of technology threatens our very humanity, Tabachnick emphasizes that we still may have time to recover and develop these capacities - but we must first decide how far we want to allow technology to determine our existence and our future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Edward Tabachnick is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at Nipissing University.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802094694
ISBN 13 
9780802094698
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
200
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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