Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature-the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan.
| ISBN: | 9780520080553 |
| Publication date: | 18th October 1995 |
| Author: | David Rothenberg |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Nature and the natural world: general interest |
Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature-the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan.
Hand's End features in the following genres: Social and political philosophy, Nature and the natural world: general interest
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Hand's End was written by David Rothenberg and published by University of California Press
Hand's End has 256 pages