Confronting Disaster : An Existential Approach to Technoscience

Raphael Sassower

ISBN 10: 0739108514 / ISBN 13: 9780739108512

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2004

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps. An urgent commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Raphael Sassower's powerful new book is a culmination of many years of research and thought carefully arranged into an extended essay on our contemporary social, cultural, and existential orientation in the modern world.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780739108512

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Confronting Disaster : An Existential Approach to Technoscience
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0739108514
• ISBN-13: 9780739108512
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps. An urgent commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Raphael Sassower's powerful new book is a culmination of many years of research and thought carefully arranged into an extended essay on our contemporary social, cultural, and existential orientation in the modern world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Raphael Sassower is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including The Price of Public Intellectuals (2014), Religion and Sports in American Culture (2014), Digital Exposure: Postmodern Postcapitalism (2013) and Solo: Postmodern Explorations (2011).