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Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
ISBN: 9781587430589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. We live in a culture shaped and fueled by technology. Usually we equate access to technology with opportunity and the chance to pursue -the good life.- Power Failure raises some crucial, if disconcerting, questions about technology: If technology liberates us, what kind of liberation does it promise? Are we prospering, and by what definition?
Albert Borgmann looks at the relationship between Christianity and technology by examining some of the -invisible- dangers of a technology-driven lifestyle. Specifically, he points out how utility and consumption have replaced connection to... We live in a culture shaped and fueled by technology. Usually we equate access to technology with opportunity and the chance to pursue -the good life....
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70,93 zł |
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Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country (16pt Large Print Edition)
ISBN: 9780369321602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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203,94 zł |
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Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
ISBN: 9780226066295 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the industrial democracies, and it fosters the view that the earth itself is a technological device. He argues that technology has served us as well in conquering hunger and disease, but that when we turn to it for richer experiences, it leads instead to a life dominated by effortless and thoughtless...
Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernib...
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163,80 zł |
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Moral Cosmology
ISBN: 9781666900460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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376,74 zł |
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Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
ISBN: 9780226066233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Holding On to Reality" is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information.
"Holding On to Reality" is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to...
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125,58 zł |
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Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
ISBN: 9780739175408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with greenhouse gases to safe levels. Deliberate manipulation of solar radiation to combat climate change is an exciting and hopeful technical prospect, promising great benefits to those who are in line to suffer...
Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler clima...
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556,92 zł |
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