Anthropology in the Age of Technology : The Philosophical Contribution of Günther Anders /

Anthropology in the Age of Technology : The Philosophical Contribution of Günther Anders /

This book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders. Anders is one of few philosophers to deal intensely with the moral consequences of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. He can rightly be called the philosoph...

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Main Author: Dijk, Paul van (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2000.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 103.

Subjects:

Anthropological ethics.
Civilization > Philosophy.
Technology > Philosophy.

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Call Number: B3199

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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Foreword. One Introduction. Two Portrait of Günther Anders. Three The Core Thinking of Anders. Four The Relation of Anders to Academic Philosphy. Five Anders's Philosophy of Technology in Relation to That of Heidegger. Six Anders and the Technology Debate. Seven Evaluation and Closing Remarks. Chronology. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.