Our War on Ourselves : : Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth / / Willem H. Vanderburg.
Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 2 Tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: A Civilization of Non-sense?
- 1. Symbolization: Getting in Touch with Ourselves and the World
- 2. Desymbolization: Losing Touch with Ourselves and the World
- 3. Colliding Orders and the Triumph of the Real
- 4. The Triumph of the Technical Order over Cultural Orders
- 5. Desymbolization and Resymbolization
- Epilogue: Power and Non-power
- Notes
- Index