Technology and the Good Life?

By: Eric Higgs (Editor), Andrew Light (Editor), David Strong (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master?

Technology and the Good Life? uses a careful collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial and influential ideas as a jumping-off point from which to address questions such as these about the role and significance of technology in our lives. Contributors both sympathetic and critical examine Borgmann's work, especially his "device paradigm"; apply his theories to new areas such as film, agriculture, design, and ecological restoration; and consider the place of his thought within philosophy and technology studies more generally.

Because this collection carefully investigates the issues at the heart of how we can take charge of life with technology, it will be a landmark work not just for philosophers of technology but for students and scholars in the many disciplines concerned with science and technology studies.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Philosophy of Technology Today	p. 17
Borgmann's Philosophy of Technology	p. 19
Philosophy of Technology: Retrospective and Prospective Views	p. 38
Evaluating Focal Things	p. 51
Focal Things and Focal Practices	p. 55
Technology and Nostalgia	p. 70
Focaltechnics, Pragmatechnics, and the Reform of Technology	p. 89
Borgmann's Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen: On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of Place	p. 106
On Character and Technology	p. 126
Theory in the Service of Practice	p. 149
The Moving Image: Between Devices and Things	p. 153
Farming as Focal Practice	p. 166
Design and the Reform of Technology: Venturing Out into the Open	p. 182
Nature by Design	p. 195
Extensions and Controversies	p. 213
Technological Ethics in a Different Voice	p. 219
Crossing the Postmodern Divide with Borgmann, or Adventures in Cyberspace	p. 234
Technology and Temporal Ambiguity	p. 256
Trapped in Consumption: Modern Social Structure and the Entrenchment of the Device	p. 271
From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads	p. 294
Philosophy in the Service of Things	p. 316
Postscript	p. 339
Reply to My Critics	p. 341
Afterword	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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