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Man And Technics
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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Arktos
Release Date : 2015-01-30
Man And Technics written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Arktos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with History categories.
In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler’s classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than eighty years after the book was first published, have turned out to be remarkably accurate. Spengler predicted that industrialisation would lead to serious environmental problems and that countless species would become extinct. He also predicted that labour from Third World countries would increasingly outcompete Western workers by doing the same work for much lower wages, and that industrial production would therefore move to other parts of the world, such as East Asia, India, and South America. According to Spengler, technology has not only made it possible for man to harness the forces of nature; it has also alienated him from nature. Modern technology now dominates our culture instead of that which is natural and organic. After having made himself the master of nature, man has himself become technology’s slave. ‘The victor, crashed, is dragged to death by the team’, Spengler summarises. Finally, Spengler foresaw that Western man would eventually grow weary of his increasingly artificial lifestyle and begin to hate the civilisation he himself created. There is no way out of this conundrum as the unrelenting progress of technological development cannot be halted. The current high-tech culture of the West is therefore doomed, destined to be consumed from within and destroyed. A time will come, Spengler writes, when our giant cities and skyscrapers have fallen in ruins and lie forgotten ‘just like the palaces of old Memphis and Babylon’. It remains to be seen if this last, and most dire, of Spengler’s prophecies will also come true.
Routledge Revivals Man And Technics 1932
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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Routledge Revivals Man And Technics 1932 written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work — spelling the doom of Western civilization.
Summary Of Oswald Spengler S Man And Technics
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-04-15T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Oswald Spengler S Man And Technics written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15T22:59:00Z with Philosophy categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The problem of technics and its relation to culture and history first emerged in the nineteenth century. The eighteenth century, with its fundamental skepticism, had posed the question of the meaning and value of culture. But after Napoleon, the machine-technics of Western Europe grew gigantic, and we had to face the question in earnest. #2 The aim of mankind is to relieve the individual of as much work as possible and put the burden on the machine. Freedom from the misery of wage-slavery, equality in amusements and comforts, and enjoyment of art are the goals of this cosmopolitanism. #3 Technics is not to be understood in terms of tools. What matters is not how one fashions things, but the process of using them. The weapon is not the important thing, but the battle. Every machine serves some one process and owes its existence to thought about this process. #4 The catchword of the last century was progress, which was the belief that history was marching forward towards a goal that men did not clearly define or visualize. But impermanence, birth and passing is the form of all things actual, from the stars to the fleeting concourses on this planet.
The Decline Of The West
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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1991
The Decline Of The West written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.
Technics And Civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-30
Technics And Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-30 with History categories.
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Art And Technics
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2000
Art And Technics written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
Lewis Mumford was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with technics. This text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture.
Technics And Time 1
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Author : Bernard Stiegler
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1998
Technics And Time 1 written by Bernard Stiegler and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Philosophy categories.
What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning. Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality, with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or war, and with its epistemic status changing accordingly. The power that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of the two world wars. Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkers--Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger, the paleo-ontologist Leroi-Gourhan, the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the sociologists Weber and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela.
Routledge Revivals Man And Technics 1932
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Author : Oswald Spengler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Routledge Revivals Man And Technics 1932 written by Oswald Spengler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with categories.
First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age -- the culture of the machine age -- which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work -- spelling the doom of Western civilization.
Stiegler And Technics
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Author : Christina Howells
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-16
Stiegler And Technics written by Christina Howells and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-16 with Philosophy categories.
These 17 essays covers all aspects of Bernard Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, 'libidinal economy', technoscience and aesthetics, keeping a focus on his key theory of technics throughout. Stiegler brings together key concepts from Plato, Freud, Derrida and Simondon to argue that the human is 'invented' through technics rather than a product of purely biological evolution. Stiegler is a thinker at the forefront of our contemporary concerns with consumerism, technology, inter-generational division, political apathy and economic crisis. His ambitious project is to go beyond these sources of social distress to uncover and examine precisely 'what makes life worth living'. Contributors include: Stephen Barker, University of California Irvine and translator of Steigler; Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris and translator of Stiegler; Miguel de Beistegui; University of Warwick; Marc Crepon, Ecole normale superieure and co-founder of Stiegler's think tank, Ars Industrialis and Daniel Ross, co-director of 'The Ister', the award-winning film on Heidegger, and translator of Stiegler.
The Age Of The Crisis Of Man
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Author : Mark Greif
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-08
The Age Of The Crisis Of Man written by Mark Greif and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with History categories.
Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment -- Currents through the War -- The end of the War and after -- Transmission -- Criticism and the literary crisis of man -- Studies in fiction -- Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions -- Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers -- Flannery O'Connor and faith -- Thomas Pynchon and technology -- Transmutation -- The Sixties as big bang -- Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory -- Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.