The Value of Convenience - A Genealogy of Technical Culture

In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Thomas F. Tierney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Concord College.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas F Tierney, Thomas F. Tierney
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.01.1993
• EAN: 9780791412435
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1243-5
• Seiten: 281
• Gewicht: 562 g
• Serien: SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; Suny Science, Technology, and
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien