Description: Further DetailsTitle: Spirits in the Material WorldCondition: NewSubtitle: The Challenge of TechnologyISBN-10: 0739133683EAN: 9780739133682ISBN: 9780739133682Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/26/2009Description: In Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology, Gil Germain provocatively argues that humans are fast becoming spirit-like creatures, beings who assume their bodies are incidental to what it means to be human, and the 'real world' an accidental quality of the human condition. Technology, it is suggested, authorizes such an understanding and legitimates a manner of action that obscures the centrality of embodiment. Technology properly understood is thus an otherworldly or spiritual force. Spirits in the Material World challenges the assumptions underpinning the technological world view through a reading of leading contemporary theorists who have addressed the interconnection between technology and embodiment. The book both reveals and contests the multifarious ways in which technology's spiritual thrust is manifested in contemporary thought and practice. While respecting technology's hold on modernity and its predisposition toward disembodiment, Germain gives important reasons why this inclination toward spiritization ought to be resisted and what shape this resistance must take if it is to be meaningful. Spirits in the Material World will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars and students alike, especially those interested in philosophy of technology, postmodernism, political theory, phenomenology, the end of history debate, and deep ecology.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 163mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 522gAuthor: Gil GermainGenre: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Spirits in the Material World
Title: Spirits in the Material World
Subtitle: The Challenge of Technology
ISBN-10: 0739133683
EAN: 9780739133682
ISBN: 9780739133682
Release Date: 10/26/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Publication Name: Spirits in the Material World : the Challenge of Technology
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Social, Mind & Body, General, Movements / Realism
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Gil Germain
Subject Area: Philosophy, Technology & Engineering
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
