{"product_id":"9780253108647","title":"Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible,\u003cbr\u003e philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology\u003cbr\u003e and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit\u003cbr\u003e to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed.\" -- Don Ihde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA\u003cbr\u003e practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's\u003cbr\u003e technological culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophical Tools for Technological\u003cbr\u003e Culture contends that technology -- a defining mark of contemporary culture --\u003cbr\u003e should be a legitimate concern of philosophers. Larry A. Hickman contests the\u003cbr\u003e perception that philosophy is little more than a narrow academic discipline and that\u003cbr\u003e philosophical discourse is merely redescription of the ancient past. Drawing\u003cbr\u003e inspiration from John Dewey, one of America's greatest public philosophers, Hickman\u003cbr\u003e validates the role of philosophers as cultural critics and reformers in the broadest\u003cbr\u003e sense. Hickman situates Dewey's critique of technological culture within the debates\u003cbr\u003e of 20th-century Western philosophy by engaging the work of Richard Rorty, Albert\u003cbr\u003e Borgmann, Jacques Ellul, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Martin Heidegger,\u003cbr\u003e among others. Pushing beyond their philosophical concerns, Hickman designs and\u003cbr\u003e assembles a set of philosophical tools to cope with technological culture in a new\u003cbr\u003e century. His pragmatic treatment of current themes -- such as technology and its\u003cbr\u003e relationship to the arts, technosciences and technocrats, the role of the media in\u003cbr\u003e education, and the meaning of democracy and community life in an age dominated by\u003cbr\u003e technology -- reveals that philosophy possesses powerful tools for cultural renewal.\u003cbr\u003e This original, timely, and accessible work will be of interest to readers seeking a\u003cbr\u003e deeper understanding of the meanings and consequences of technology in today's\u003cbr\u003e world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112419442928,"sku":"9780253108647","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253108647_p0.jpg?v=1763681734","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253108647","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}