Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature

Author/Contributor(s):	Rothenberg, David
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	10/13/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.