The Question Concerning Technology in China
An Essay in Cosmotechnics
$39.80
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2016
Summary
A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics.Heidegger’s critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one-originally Greek-type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995455009 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0995455007 |
| Author: | Yuk Hui |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic / Mono |
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Critics Review
In this remarkable book, Yuk Hui draws on the major thinkers of both the West and the East to elaborate an original reflection on the nature of technology. He has enlarged the philosophical horizon for the Anthropocene age. (Andrew Feenberg, author of Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity)
About The Author
Yuk Hui
Yuk Hui is a philosopher based in Berlin and the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects and Recursivity and Contingency.
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