The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society

The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society
John Paul Russo (Author)
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In The Future without a Past, John Paul Russo goes beyond currently given reasons for the decline of the humanities and searches out its root causes in the technologization of everyday life. His main premise is that we are undergoing a transformation at the hands of technological imperatives such as rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy. The relation between ourselves and nature has altered to such a degree that we no longer live in a natural environment but in a technological one. According to Russo, technological values have actually eroded human values instead of being “humanized” by them.

• Rank: #2526967 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.10" w x 6.14" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 328 pages

Description #1 by Barnes & Noble - New Chapter Recycling:

Categories: Humanities->Philosophy, Learning and scholarship->History, Humanities->Philosophy. Contributors: John Paul Russo - Author. Format: Hardcover

Description #2 by LangtonInfo.com:

"Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo"--Provided by publisher.

Description #3 by Textbooks.com:

by John Paul Russo - University of Chicago Press (2005) - Hardback - ISBN 0826215866 9780826215864