Technology and Cultural Values : : On the Edge of the Third Millennium / / ed. by Peter D. Hershock, Roger T. Ames, Marietta Stepaniants.

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• MitwirkendeR: Al-Attas, Syed Muhammad Naquib,; Arisaka, Yoko,; Becker, Carl,; Bray, Francesca,; Buchanan, James P.,; Buchanan, James,; Chakrabarti, Arindam,; Cummings Neville, Robert,; Derringh, Frank W.,; Elberfeld, Rolf,; Ess, Charles,; Feenberg, Andrew,; Goonatilake, Susantha,; Heng, H. Jiuan,; Hershock, Peter D.,; Hershock, Peter,; Kasulis, Thomas P.,; Khushf, George,; Krell, David Farrell,; Kupperman, Joel J.,; Lafleur, William R.,; Lorentzen, Lois Ann,; Loy, David R.,; Margolis, Joseph,; Möller, Hans-Georg,; Ni, Peimin,; Opole, Monica,; Pandikattu, Kuruvilla,; Petrovsky, Helen,; Sentmartí, Ramon,; Shrader-Frechette, Kristin,; Srinivasan, Vasanthi,; Stiopin, Vyacheslav,; Ten Have, Henk A. M. J.,; Thompson, Paul B.,; Tiles, Mary,; Wong, David B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ames, Roger T.,; Hershock, Peter D.,; Stepaniants, Marietta,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)

Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Contributors: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Roger T. Ames,Yoko Arisaka, Carl Becker, Francesca Bray, James Buchanan, Arindam Chakrabarti, Frank W. Derringh, Rolf Elberfeld, Charles Ess, Andrew Feenberg, Susantha Goonatilake, H. Jiuan Heng, Peter Hershock, Thomas P. Kasulis, George Khushf, David Farrell Krell, Joel J. Kupperman, William R. LaFleur, Lois Ann Lorentzen, David Loy, Joseph Margolis, Hans-Georg Möller, Robert Cummings Neville, Peimin Ni, Monica Atieno Opole, Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ, Helen Petrovsky, Ramon Sentmartí, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Vasanthi Srinivasan, Marietta Stepaniants, Vyacheslav S. Stiopin, Henk ten Have, Paul B.Thompson, Mary Tiles, David B.Wong.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference -- Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization -- Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival -- Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition -- Islām and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Worldviews -- 2. Biotechnologies -- Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies -- Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic -- Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach -- Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care -- Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation -- Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology -- Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology) -- 3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent -- How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media -- Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply -- Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation -- Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador -- Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl -- Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion -- Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger's Analysis of Technology -- 4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species -- From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium -- Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation -- How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator -- 5. Technology and the Home -- Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings -- Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering -- Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism -- 6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment -- Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human -- Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema -- Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction -- Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology -- 7. Technology, Communication, and Education -- Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values -- Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism -- Online Education and the Choices of Modernity -- The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology -- The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet -- 8. Critical Afterword -- Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation) -- Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index