Globalization, Technology, and PhilosophyDavid Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski SUNY Press, 2004 M05 10 - 251 pages Rather than focusing on political, economic, or social manifestations of technology and globalization, this book examines these related phenomena from a philosophical perspective. Prominent thinkers from philosophy, sociology, and political science reflect on a variety of important topics and individuals, including the Internet, citizenship, individuality, the human condition, spirituality, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojève, and Strauss. The contributors ask whether political community and citizenship are still possible in an age of technology and globalization, and what it means to be human in a globalized technological society. |
Contents
Introduction David Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski | 1 |
Democracy in the Age of Globalization | 9 |
On Globalization Technology and the New Justice | 59 |
What Globalization Do We Want? | 75 |
Reflections | 93 |
Melzer | 109 |
Global Technology and the Promise of Control | 143 |
The Human Condition in the Age of Technology | 159 |
Technology and the Ground of Humanist Ethics | 175 |
Nietzsches Soulcraft | 191 |
Globalization Technology and the Authority | 221 |
Persons in a Technological Universe | 235 |
Contributors | 243 |
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