Instrumentality: On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages

by J. Allan Mitchell

Book Overview

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines

Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. J. Allan Mitchell reveals how, in the predigital past, we can recognize many of the operative technics, analytics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517917395
• ISBN13: 9781517917395
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"