Anthropology in the Age of Technology: The Philosophical Contributions of Günther AndersRodopi, 2000 - 193 pagina's This book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders. Anders is one of few philosophers to deal intensely with the moral consequences of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. He can rightly be called the philosopher of the atomic age, and his thinking a philosophy of modern technology. In biting manifestoes, sharp aphorisms, and penetrating essays, in stirring diary notes and political fables, Anders strikes out the age in which we live. As a twentieth-century visionary, he exposes the absence of the moral and social imaginations that is necessary to prevent our history from ending in a total catastrophe. In the gap between our technical creations and our utter inability to imagine their destructive potential lies the basis for the unstoppable activity of this practical philosopher. From every possible angle, he attempts to comprehend this modern schizophrenia in its roots and consequences. Anders is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He tried to describe and analyze the variety of manifestations of the "self-destructive progress of our technical civilization," which makes humanity into an "anti-quated" sort. He diagnosed countless important problems, ranging from the world of media to the dictates of the world of machinery, and he investigated their social, political, and philosophical meaning. To read his writings is more than becoming acquainted with a rich and colorful philosopher. It is more than an encounter with a moving and passionate individual. It is ultimately a confrontation with oneself, with our own guilt and responsibility, with our personal hopes and fears, with our lack of imagination and with our need to recover it. |
Inhoudsopgave
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Anders as Moralist | 79 |
Molussia | 87 |
2 | 95 |
Five | 105 |
3 | 116 |
6 | 128 |
8 | 137 |
Seven | 155 |
Chronology | 165 |
About the author | 179 |
45 | 182 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 72 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
Pagina 106 - ... which it is a means and a human activity, can therefore be called the instrumental and anthropological definition of technology. Who would ever deny that it is correct? It is in obvious conformity with what we are envisioning when we talk about technology. The instrumental definition of technology is indeed so uncannily correct that it even holds for modern technology, of which, in other respects, we maintain with some justification that it is, in contrast to the older handwork technology, something...
Pagina 128 - Agriculture is now the mechanized food industry, in essence the same as the manufacturing of corpses in gas chambers and extermination camps, the same as the blockade and starvation of nations, the same as the production of hydrogen bombs.
Pagina 67 - Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat. accursed be the soil because of you. With suffering shall you get your food from it every day of your life. It shall yield you brambles and thistles, and you shall eat wild plants. With sweat on your brow shall you eat your bread, until you return to the soil, as you were taken from it. For dust you are and to dust you shall return.
Pagina 63 - The truth is that society simply cannot accept the fact of my guilt without at the same time recognizing its own far deeper guilt.
Pagina 171 - ESSAYS ON SOCIALIST HUMANISM, in honour of the Centenary of Bertrand Russell EDITED BY KEN COATES Contributors include Jean Paul Sartre, Vladimir Dedijer, Noam Chomsky, Lelio Basso. Mihailo Markovic and many others. "How important... that the publishers should have brought out a volume to honour the Centenary of Bertrand Russell's birth and to explore the relationship between...
Pagina 19 - And soon there was added to this the knowledge that only to my Jewish nature did I owe the two qualities which had been indispensable to me on my hard road. Because I was a Jew I found myself free from many prejudices which limited others in the use of their intellect, and, being a Jew, I was prepared to enter opposition and to renounce agreement with the 'compact majority.
Pagina 29 - Der Mensch: seine Natur und seine Stellung in der Welt [Man: his nature and place in the world] (Leipzig, l940.
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