Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry

by Albert Borgmann

Book Overview

Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the industrial democracies, and it fosters the view that the earth itself is a technological device. He argues that technology has served us as well in conquering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226066290
• ISBN13: 9780226066295
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"