{"product_id":"living-in-the-labyrinth-of-technology-paperback-softback-9780802048790","title":"Living in the Labyrinth of Technology (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802048790","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiving in the Labyrinth of Technology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWillem H. Vanderburg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802048790\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 June 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e550 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 3.6 cm, 0.82 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for granted. Everything was symbolized according to its meaning and value: a fallen branch from a tree became a lever; a tree trunk floating in the river became a canoe. \u003ci\u003eHomo logos\u003c\/i\u003e created communities based on cultures: humanity's first megaproject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther symbolization of the human community and its relation to nature led to the possibility of creating societies and civilizations. Everything changed as these interposed themselves between the group and nature. \u003ci\u003eHomo societas\u003c\/i\u003e created ways of life able to give meaning, direction, and purpose to many groups by means of very different cultures: humanity's second megaproject. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e did for the nineteenth century and \u003ci\u003eLa technique\u003c\/i\u003e did for the twentieth, Willem H. Vanderburg's \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Labyrinth of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to create for the twenty-first century: an attempt at understanding the world in a manner not shackled to overspecialized scientific knowing and technical doing. Western civilization may well be creating humanity's third megaproject, based not on symbolization for making sense of and living in the world, but on highly specialized desymbolized knowing stripped of all peripheral understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVanderburg focuses on two interdependent forces in his narrative, namely, people changing technology and technology changing people. The latter aspect, although rarely considered, turns out to be the more critical one for understanding the spectacular successes and failures of contemporary ways of life. As technology continues to change the social and physical world, the experiences of this world 'grow' people's minds and society's cultures, thereby re-creating human life in the image of technology. \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Labyrinth of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by this pattern unless society intervenes on human (as opposed to technical) terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Where Are We Going with Technology?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth and the Gods\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI Industrialization as 'People Changing Technolo\u0026amp;: Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1.1 Revisiting the Process of Industrialization \u003cbr\u003e 1.2 The Technology-Based Connectedness of Society \u003cbr\u003e 1.3 Living with Materials \u003cbr\u003e 1.4 Living with the Economy \u003cbr\u003e 1.5 Living Together Socially \u003cbr\u003e 1.6 Living Together Politically \u003cbr\u003e 1.7 Living with the Law \u003cbr\u003e 1.8 Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth \u003cbr\u003e 1.9 Some Implications \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e2 Industrialization as Technology Changing People': Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Gods \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.1 Symbolization and Cultural Moorings \u003cbr\u003e 2.2 Symbolization and the Life-Milieu \u003cbr\u003e 2.3 Culture as the Symbolic Basis for Individual Life \u003cbr\u003e 2.4 Culture as the Symbolic Basis for Collective Life \u003cbr\u003e 2.5 Industrialization as Cultural Unfolding \u003cbr\u003e 2.6 New Cultural Moorings \u003cbr\u003e 2.7 Religion, Morality, and Art \u003cbr\u003e 2.8 The First Generation of Industrial Societies \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e3 Living with New Moorings to the Earth and the Gods \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.1 Serving Technology \u003cbr\u003e 3.2 On Becoming Human Resources \u003cbr\u003e 3.3 Technology and the Human Journey \u003cbr\u003e 3.4 No Detached Observers \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to Experience and Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e4 People Changing Technology: Severing the Cultural Moorings of Traditional Technological Knowing and Doing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.1 Transcending the Limits of Technological Traditions \u003cbr\u003e 4.2 The Destruction of Technological Traditions \u003cbr\u003e 4.3 Parallel Modes of Knowing \u003cbr\u003e 4.4 The Technological Knowledge of a Society \u003cbr\u003e 4.5 A Discontinuous Change in Technological Knowing and Doing \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e5 Scientific and Technological Knowledge in Human Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.1 Scientific Education and Culture \u003cbr\u003e 5.2 Contemporary Technological Doing Embedded in Culture \u003cbr\u003e 5.3 Contemporary Technological Knowing and Doing in Relation to Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e6 Adapting to the New Technological Knowing and Doing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6.1 The Emergence of Universal Technology \u003cbr\u003e 6.2 Living with a New Economy\u003cbr\u003e 6.3 Living in a Mass Society \u003cbr\u003e 6.4 Living with a Limitless Politics \u003cbr\u003e 6.5 The Intellectual and Professional Division of Labour and the Poverty of Nations \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Our Third Megaproject?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e7 Technique and Culture \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7.1 The Disenchantment of the World Revisited \u003cbr\u003e 7.2 The Invention of Universal Knowledge \u003cbr\u003e 7.3 Rationality and Industrialization \u003cbr\u003e 7.4 Logic, Artificial Intelligence, and Culture \u003cbr\u003e 7.5 On Creating a New Concept \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e8 Human Life Out of Context \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8.1 The Technical Approach to Life \u003cbr\u003e 8.2 Sport \u003cbr\u003e 8.3 Education \u003cbr\u003e 8.4 War \u003cbr\u003e 8.5 Commercial and Political Advertising \u003cbr\u003e 8.6 Organization \u003cbr\u003e 8.7 Agriculture \u003cbr\u003e 8.8 Living with the Technical Approach to Life \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e9 From Experience to Information\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9.1 The Roots of the Information Explosion \u003cbr\u003e 9.2 Homo Znformaticus and the Information Society \u003cbr\u003e 9.3 Technique and Industry \u003cbr\u003e 9.4 The Price to Be Paid \u003cbr\u003e 9.5 Living with Information \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e10 Remaking Ourselves in the Image of Technique: Culture within Technique \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10.1 Technique as Phenomenon \u003cbr\u003e 10.2 Technique as Life-Milieu \u003cbr\u003e 10.3 Technique as Consciousness \u003cbr\u003e 10.4 Possessed by Technique? 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