Living in the Labyrinth of Technology / / Willem Vanderburg.
From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for granted. Everything was symbolized according to its meaning and value: a fallen branch from a tree became a lever; a tree trunk floating in the river beca...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Where Are We Going with Technology?
- 1. Industrialization as 'People Changing Technology': Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth
- 2. Industrialization as 'Technology Changing People': Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Gods
- 3. Living with New Moorings to the Earth and the Gods
- 4. People Changing Technology: Severing the Cultural Moorings of Traditional Technological Knowing and Doing
- 5. Scientific and Technological Knowledge in Human Life
- 6. Adapting to the New Technological Knowing and Doing
- 7. Technique and Culture
- 8. Human Life Out of Context
- 9. From Experience to Information
- 10. Remaking Ourselves in the Image of Technique: Culture within Technique
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index