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Hand's End

Technology and the Limits of Nature

David Rothenberg author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:18th Oct '95

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"Hand's End" offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan.

ISBN: 9780520080553

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 363g

256 pages