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Author Rivers, Theodore John, 1944-

Title Contra technologiam : the crisis of value in a technological age / Theodore John Rivers.

Publication Info. Lanham [Md.] : University Press of America, [1993]
©1993
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  303.483 R622C    Check Shelf
Description v, 121 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Form Also issued online.
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction: The Definition of Terms and Conditions -- Ch. 2. The Phenomena of Technology: Essential Concepts and Fearless Misapprehensions -- Ch. 3. Termini Ad Quem: The Limits of Technology -- Ch. 4. The Point of No Return: Progress and the Linear View of History -- Ch. 5. The Crossing of the Styx: Stability, Sterility and Death -- Ch. 6. The Adulteration of Culture: The Impact of a Multitude -- Ch. 7. Lost Among the Stars: The Secularization of Religion -- Ch. 8. A Shortfall in Knowledge: Ignorance and the Proliferation of Information -- Ch. 9. A Disparaging Condition: Challenges to the Self -- Ch. 10. Human Bondage: Technology and a Technological Artifice.
Subject Technology and civilization.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization. (OCoLC)fst01145253
Technology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145202
Technologie.
Maatschappij.
Technischer Fortschritt.
Wertkrise.
Indexed Term Society Role of Technology
Other Form: Online version: Rivers, Theodore John, 1944- Contra technologiam. Lanham [Md.] : University Press of America, ©1993 (OCoLC)622932148
ISBN 081919090X (alk. paper)
9780819190901 (alk. paper)
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