The Inhuman Condition

ISBN-13: 9780415107327 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 168 str.

Professor Keith Tester;Tester Keith

Opis

Keith Tester explores in this text whether we are capable of coming to terms with the world we have made. He argues that we are not. We are so confused by the wonders and the sights and sounds around us that we all try to build safe little homes in which we can, for a while, be consoled by love which is doomed to fail as soon as it is thought about and by commodities which leave us unsatisfied. We all try to make sense of our humanity by turning elsewhere: to inhuman things. All of us, that is, with enough money. This text offers an interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships. It is also a major exercise in sociology which encompasses thinkers like Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Thinking. 2. Finding. 3. Consuming. 4. Looking and Listening. 5. Escaping. 6. Ending. Bibliography

O autorze

Keith Tester