| Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium Contributor(s): Hershock, Peter D. (Editor), Stepaniants, Marietta (Editor), Ames, Roger T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0824826477 ISBN-13: 9780824826475 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $54.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2003009985 |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 6.28" W x 9.4" (2.15 lbs) 624 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Contributors: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Roger T. Ames, Yoko Arisaka, Carl Becker, Francesca Bray, James Buchanan, Arindam Chakrabarti, Frank W. Derringh, Rolf Elberfeld, Charles Ess, Andrew Feenberg, Susantha Goonatilake, H. Jiuan Heng, Peter Hershock, Thomas P. Kasulis, George Khushf, David Farrell Krell, Joel J. Kupperman, William R. LaFleur, Lois Ann Lorentzen, David Loy, Joseph Margolis, Hans-Georg M ller, Robert Cummings Neville, Peimin Ni, Monica Atieno Opole, Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ, Helen Petrovsky, Ramon Sentmart , Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Vasanthi Srinivasan, Marietta Stepaniants, Vyacheslav S. Stiopin, Henk ten Have, Paul B.Thompson, Mary Tiles, David B.Wong. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hershock, Peter D.: - Peter D. Hershock is director of the Asian Studies Development Program and education specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu and fellow at the Berggruen Institute's China Center.Ames, Roger T.: - Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, a Berggruen Fellow, and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. |