Crazy Mountains: Learning from Wilderness to Weigh Technology

by David Strong

Book Overview

In the tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It, this is a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains in Montana, urging us to awaken from the spell of technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791426521
• ISBN13: 9780791426524
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent insight into technology

Strong gets to the heart of the matter of modern technological society in Crazy Mountains. He explores the nature of technology and how it casts its spell on modern society. The solution he discusses for resisting this hold of technology on our lives is insightful and provocative. Drawing from Albert Borgmann's work, he brings a level of eloquence and personal interaction to the discussion not found in Borgmann.

Good but derivative

A good book that answers the tough philosphical question--what makes vicarious technological experience less rich than 'authentic' experience. Borrows a lot from author's mentor's work which is excellent--Albert Borgmann's Technology and the Characater of contemporary life