Hand's End - Technology and the Limits of Nature (Paperback, Revised)


"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.

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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.

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General

Imprint

University of California Press

Country of origin

United States

Release date

October 1995

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

1994

Authors

Dimensions

228 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

256

Edition

Revised

ISBN-13

978-0-520-08055-3

Barcode

9780520080553

Categories

LSN

0-520-08055-6



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