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020 _z9780226333885 (e-book)
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035 _a(OCoLC)695993897
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_cCaPaEBR
050 1 4 _aT14
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245 0 0 _aTechnology and the good life?
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong.
260 _aChicago :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c2000.
300 _axii, 392 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: I PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY TODAY 17 -- 1. Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology 19 -- David Strong and Eric Higgs -- 2. Philosophy of Technology. Retrospective and -- Prospective Views 38 -- Paul T Durbin -- II EVALUATING FOCAL THINGS 51 -- 3. Focal Things and Focal Practices 55 -- Lawrence Haworth -- 4. Technology and Nostalgia 70 -- Gordon G. BrittanJr. -- 5. Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform -- of Technology 89 -- Larry Hickman -- 6. Borgmann's Unzeitgemisse Betrachtungen: -- On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place 106 -- Andrew Light -- 7. On Character and Technology 126 -- Carl Mitcham -- III THEORY IN THE SERVICE OF PRACTICE 149 -- 8. The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things 153 -- Phillip R. Fandozzi -- 9. Farming as Focal Practice 166 -- Paul B. Thompson -- 10. Design and the Reform of Technology: -- Venturing Out into the Open 182 -- Jesse S. Tatum -- 11. Nature by Design 195 -- Eric Higgs -- IV EXTENSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES 213 -- 12. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice 219 -- Diane P Michelfelder -- 13. Crossing the Postmodern Divide with -- Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace 234 -- Douglas Kellner -- 14. Technology and Temporal Ambiguity 256 -- Mora Campbell -- 15. Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure -- and the Entrenchment of the Device 271 -- Thomas Michael Power -- 16. From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of -- Technology at the Crossroads 294 -- Andrew Feenberg -- 17. Philosophy in the Service of Things 316 -- David Strong -- V POSTSCRIPT 339 -- 18. Reply to My Critics 341 -- Albert Borgmann -- Afterword 371 -- Index 375.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xSocial aspects.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aHiggs, Eric,
_d1958-
700 1 _aLight, Andrew,
_d1966-
700 1 _aStrong, David,
_d1955-
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10438630
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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