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The Disposition of the Subject: Reading Adorno's Dialectic of Technology (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)

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I came across this book entirely at random. Well, not quite. I was searching for other books by Jon Krakauer (climbing and extreme nature author). I ordered the Disposition of the Subject because of the title's reference to technology and Adorno's views on it, having already read Michael Zimmerman's Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity. I do research on the phenomenology of technology, not as a philosopher but using philosophy as a resource to get above the "obviousness" and limitations of how many of the issues are discussed within information systems and computing. The Disposition of the Subject: etc. is a great book! If you are interested in a critique of technology, and of modernism as expressed in technology, from a very well read person who is also a clear and exciting writer, try this. I congratulate the author. This is his dissertation!