Raphael Sassower

Broschiertes Buch

Confronting Disaster

An Existential Approach to Technoscience

Beschreibung

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps. An urgent commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Raphael Sassower's powerful new book is a culmination of many years of research and thought carefully arranged into an extended essay on our contemporary social, cultural, and existential orientation in the modern world.

Autor

Raphael Sassower is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including The Price of Public Intellectuals (2014), Religion and Sports in American Culture (2014), Digital Exposure: Postmodern Postcapitalism (2013) and Solo: Postmodern Explorations (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9780739108512
• ISBN-10: 0739108514
• Artikelnr.: 21561651

Rezensionen

Raphael Sassower has written a veritable guide to the perplexed individuals who suffer the uncertainties of our contemporary world without tools such as political power or social organization to address the many disasters which confront them. What is unique about this book is its unapologetic existentialism and its refusal to blame the victims for their fate. This book will be useful for the despairing because it gives a measure of hope. -- Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center Sassower's insights and suggestions offer a lively and illuminating if not always convincing perspective on issues with which the reader in philosophy and ethics of technology will be familiar. Bridges In Confronting Disaster, Raphael Sassower masterfully presents a perennial philosophy for the postmodern condition. His intriguing mix of existentialism and stoicism steers the reader to 'peace of mind' in a time when most pundits veer between Scylla of complacency and the Charybdis of despair. To those who believe that professional philosophers can no longer address 'the meaning of life' in lay terms, I would direct them to this book as a shining example of how it can be done. -- Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick and Founding Editor, Social Epistemology