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Paperback Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry Book

ISBN: 0226066290

ISBN13: 9780226066295

Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry

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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 argues that technology has served us as well in conquering...

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