| Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature Contributor(s): Rothenberg, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520080556 ISBN-13: 9780520080553 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: 'Hands End provides a historical overview of Western philosophical thought about the interrelationship of technology and nature. For all concerned about our planet and humankind's ability to find a sustainable future, Rothenberg extends his hand and mind in affirmation of a more beneficial technology.' -Robert S. Blount III, Forest and Conservation Biology |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Philosophy | Political - Technology & Engineering |
| Dewey: 601 |
| LCCN: 92039341 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.95" W x 8.87" (0.81 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |