Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach to Technoscience

by Raphael Sassower and Raphael Sassower Professor and Chair of Philosophy University of Colorado

Book Overview

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739108506
• ISBN13: 9780739108505
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"