The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics

by Yuk Hui

Book Overview

A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics.

Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one--originally Greek--type of technics has been an obstacle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995455007
• ISBN13: 9780995455009
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Urbanomic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.5" x 6.8"