Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.
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This is an important book. Lorenzo Simpson has given us a tough-minded, cool-eyed, warm-hearted critique of the technological perspective and of the post-modernist response . . . extraordinarily rich in language and subtle in conception.
–Marx W. Wartofsky, Baruch College
This book is an excellent contribution both to cultural theory and to substantive moral philosophy. Lorenzo Simpson offers a subtle and scholarly account of the eclipse of imminent by instrumental value in the 'postmodern' world; at the same time, his distinctive voice brings home to us how our lives are impoverished by this development and how we can resist it.
–Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College
Lorenzo Simpson's major new work on technology, temporality, and ethics is clearly the product of wide reading and mature reflection. . . . His discussions of Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty and a host of other major theorists are uniformly first-rate.
–Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University
–Marx W. Wartofsky, Baruch College
This book is an excellent contribution both to cultural theory and to substantive moral philosophy. Lorenzo Simpson offers a subtle and scholarly account of the eclipse of imminent by instrumental value in the 'postmodern' world; at the same time, his distinctive voice brings home to us how our lives are impoverished by this development and how we can resist it.
–Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College
Lorenzo Simpson's major new work on technology, temporality, and ethics is clearly the product of wide reading and mature reflection. . . . His discussions of Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty and a host of other major theorists are uniformly first-rate.
–Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University
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Lorenzo C. Simpson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond.
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prereflective meanings, postmodern consensus, scientific anticipation, indeterminate negation, postmodern desire, criterial properties, neighbor paint, technological attitude, functional rationality, technological rationality, philosophical nihilism, generalizable interests, local validity, external history, rational critique, meaningful practices, entails evaluation, purposive rationality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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prereflective meanings, postmodern consensus, scientific anticipation, indeterminate negation, postmodern desire, criterial properties, neighbor paint, technological attitude, functional rationality, technological rationality, philosophical nihilism, generalizable interests, local validity, external history, rational critique, meaningful practices, entails evaluation, purposive rationality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 7 pages
- The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jurgen Habermas on 5 pages
- The Human Condition (2nd Edition) by Hannah Arendt on 5 pages
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) by Jean-Francois Lyotard on 5 pages
- Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry by Albert Borgmann on 4 pages
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- Socialism (Key Concepts in Critical Theory) by Michael W. Howard on page 366, and Back Matter
- Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism (Literature, Culture, Theory) by Ursula K. Heise on page 26, and Back Matter
- Technology and the Good Life? by Eric Higgs on page 315
- The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium by Steven Best PhD in Back Matter
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