Turning Toward Technology - A Glimpse Into the Asian Paradigm

Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Tomasi Zusammenfassung We live in an age when the dominant technologically utilitarian worldview is undergoing a transformation Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Turning Toward Paradigmatic Thinking The Technological Paradigm and the Turning Two Different Methodologies Turning Toward: The Asian Paradigm 1 The Western Technological Paradigm The Paradigmatic Critic Useful and Efficient Above All Nostalgia for a Lost Agency The Vanishing Telos A Technological Middle Path 2 Cook Ting Uses a Bladeless Knife Cook Ting's Knife The Simplicity of the Technological Mind The Use of the Useless The Technological The Intimacy and Embodiment The Hinge of the Technological Way 3 Bow and Arrow without the Archer Arjuna's Technological Crisis The Karma Yoga of Technology Technological Action and Its Eternal Witness Sacrificial Action Agent-less Technology Lost the Archer: Found the Warrior 4 The Lucky Leader Political Fortuna The Rule of the Technocrat Confucianism: The Value of Natural Ease Taoism: Walking without Touching the Ground The Lucky Natural Intimate Leader 5 nyat as Technological Intimacy The Standpoint of nyat The Epistemological Way The Ontological Way The Mystical Way Technological Power Conclusion Bibliography Index

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• Authors: George Teschner, George Tomasi Teschner, George/ Tomasi Teschner, Alessandro Tomasi, Tomasi Alessandro
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781412863148
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6314-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Asia, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies