
Hand's End
Technology and the Limits of Nature
David Rothenberg(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 13. October 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-520-08055-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
8 plates
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08055-3 (9780520080553)
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09/2023
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€31.49
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Person
David Rothenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His latest book, Wild Ideas, was published in 1995.