Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity

List of contents

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Question of Technology; Chapter 2 The Idea of Technological Rationality; Part 2 Science, Language and Experience; Chapter 3 Science, Language and Experience: Reflections on the Nature of Self-Understanding; Part 3 Technology, Meaning and Time; Chapter 4 Meaning and Time: An Essay on Technology; Part 4 On the Use and Abuse of Repetition for Critique; Chapter 5 The Use of Repetition for Critique; Chapter 6 The Abuse of Repetition for Critique; Chapter 7 Notes Towards the Trivialization of a Distinction: An Interlude on the Conversations of Modernity; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 8 Technology and the Conversations of Modernity: Postmodernism, Technology, Ethics and Time;

Summary

Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo C. Simpson, Simpson Lorenzo C.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.1994
• EAN: 9780415907712
• ISBN: 978-0-415-90771-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Weight: 570 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies