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"One of the more thought-provoking comtemporary analyses of the problem of technology."--John P. Clark, Journal of Social Philosophy
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Albert Borgmann is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana. He is the author of Crossing the Postmodern Divide, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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The advanced technological way of life is usually seen as rich in styles and opportunities, pregnant with radical innovations, and open to a promising future. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public deictic discourse, pretechnological work, focal things, pretechnological setting, device paradigm, focal practices, technological leisure, pretechnological times, technological machinery, pretechnological world, paradigmatic explanation, traditional excellence, technological liberation, technological universe, active assent, collective affirmation, liberal democratic theorists, technological labor, focal concerns, technological pattern, orienting force, automated industry, productive machinery, broad middle class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The advanced technological way of life is usually seen as rich in styles and opportunities, pregnant with radical innovations, and open to a promising future. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public deictic discourse, pretechnological work, focal things, pretechnological setting, device paradigm, focal practices, technological leisure, pretechnological times, technological machinery, pretechnological world, paradigmatic explanation, traditional excellence, technological liberation, technological universe, active assent, collective affirmation, liberal democratic theorists, technological labor, focal concerns, technological pattern, orienting force, automated industry, productive machinery, broad middle class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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