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Title: HAND'S END
TECHNOLOGY AND THE LIMITS OF NATURE
By: David Rothenberg
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0520080556
ISBN 13: 9780520080553
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 13 October, 1995
Pages: 256
Description: 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.
Synopsis: "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.
Illustrations: 8 illustrations, 11 figures
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
Returns: Returnable
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