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  • Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Crossing the Postmodern Divide

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated ... Read more

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  • Moral Cosmology

    On Being in the World Fully and Well

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    A moral cosmology was the ordinary background knowledge of prescientific peoples, who took the divinity and the moral rules of the heavenly bodies for granted. That unified world view was disrupted by the European Enlightenment, which divided moral cosmology into physics and ethics: physics tells us what is, ethics tells us what we ought to do. While knowledge of physics has become hard, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Moral Soundings

    Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

    by Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...
    Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Postphenomenological Investigations

    Essays on Human–Technology Relations

    by Lenore Langsdorf, Annamaria Carusi, Marie-Christine Nizzi, Fernando Secomandi, Asle Kiran, Frances Bottenberg, Chris Kaposy, Adam Rosenfeld, Andrew Feenberg, Søren Riis, Don Ihde, Kirk M. Besmer, Aud Sissel Hoel, Yoni Van Den Eede, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Diane Michelfelder, Albert Borgmann ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Engineering the Climate

    The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management

    by Wylie Carr, Maialen Galarraga, Benjamin Hale, Marion Hourdequin, Ashley Mercer, Konrad Ott, Clare Palmer, Ronald Sandler, Holly Jean Buck, Patrick Taylor Smith, Kyle Powys Whyte, Albert Borgmann, Forrest Clingerman, Dane Scott, Bronislaw Szerszynski ...
    Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Reinventing Nature?

    Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction

    by Alan Gussow, Albert Borgmann, Gary Paul Nabhan, Kathryn Hayles, David Graber, Donald Worster, Paul Shepard ...
    How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be "reinvented" through theme parks and malls, or through restoration?Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions and conceptions of nature affect both the individual experience and society's management of nature. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Real American Ethics

    Taking Responsibility for Our Country

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Power Failure

    Christianity in the Culture of Technology

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    We live in a culture shaped and fueled by technology. Usually we equate access to technology with opportunity and the chance to pursue "the good life." Power Failure raises some crucial, if disconcerting, questions about technology: If technology liberates us, what kind of liberation does it promise? Are we prospering, and by what definition?Albert Borgmann looks at the relationship between ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Community in the Digital Age

    Philosophy and Practice

    by Andrew Feenberg, Phillip E. Agre, Maria Bakardjieva, Bruce Bimber, Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Amitai Etzioni, Tetsuji Iseda, Diane Elizabeth Johnson, Richard Kahn0, Douglas Kellner1, Yumiko Nara2, Mark Poster3, Douglas Schuler4, Leslie Regan Shade5, Sherry Turkle6 ...
    Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the ... Read more

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  • Technopoly

    The Surrender of Culture to Technology

    by Neil Postman ...
    **A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death."A provocative book ... A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News**The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support ... Read more

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