The Future Without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological SocietyUniversity of Missouri Press, 2005 - 313 Seiten "Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo"--Provided by publisher. |
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... intellectual generation as a mere fifteen years , the ' 80s are scarcely one generation away . If one adopts Fernand Braudel's tripartite historical model of brief , medium , and long duration , one could argue that the decade of the ...
... intellectual generation as a mere fifteen years , the ' 80s are scarcely one generation away . If one adopts Fernand Braudel's tripartite historical model of brief , medium , and long duration , one could argue that the decade of the ...
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... intellectual or emotional investment.23 But whatever the time scale , a deep chasm has been crossed between the 1980s and the present day . There is a phenomenology as well as a history of technology . Having lived on both sides of the ...
... intellectual or emotional investment.23 But whatever the time scale , a deep chasm has been crossed between the 1980s and the present day . There is a phenomenology as well as a history of technology . Having lived on both sides of the ...
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... intellectuals most of all . As Ellul states with Cartesian verve , technique “ clarifies , arranges , and rationalizes ; it does in the domain of the abstract what the machine did in the domain of labor . It is efficient and brings ...
... intellectuals most of all . As Ellul states with Cartesian verve , technique “ clarifies , arranges , and rationalizes ; it does in the domain of the abstract what the machine did in the domain of labor . It is efficient and brings ...
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... intellectuals, or governed by a wealthy elite, or courted by one of Burckhardt's terrible simplifiers: he has faith in the masses themselves. Although Guardini presents the bleakest vision of the end of the modern world, his ...
... intellectuals, or governed by a wealthy elite, or courted by one of Burckhardt's terrible simplifiers: he has faith in the masses themselves. Although Guardini presents the bleakest vision of the end of the modern world, his ...
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... intellectual tradition, Lewis Mumford was an early, if not uncritical, appre- ciator of the technological revolution. Yet after World War II he came to deplore the all-powerful effects of what he calls “megatechnics.” The impact of ...
... intellectual tradition, Lewis Mumford was an early, if not uncritical, appre- ciator of the technological revolution. Yet after World War II he came to deplore the all-powerful effects of what he calls “megatechnics.” The impact of ...
Inhalt
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Science and the Humanistic Curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling | 82 |
The Crisis of the New Criticism | 149 |
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