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OverviewIn this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas F. TierneyPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.562kg ISBN: 9780791412435ISBN 10: 0791412431 Pages: 281 Publication Date: 14 January 1993 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a major contribution to the political theory of technology. It treats the most prosaic of concerns in the modern era, convenience, as a lens through which to explore what many would claim is the most important problem generated by the modern age-the domination of instrumental rationality and its identity with a particular kind of modern subject. Tierney pulls in material from a series of heterogeneous traditions in political theory and history. His treatment of the American frontier, for instance, is very clever and provocative, connecting back to the Heideggerian concern with death! Such surprises are often in this book. - Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College Author InformationThomas F. Tierney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Concord College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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