Gadamer and the limits of the modern techno-scientific civilization
By: Stefano Marino
Series: Berner Reihe philosophischer Studien -- Bd. 43; Berner Reihe philosophischer Studien -- Bd. 43.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783034306638
Subjects: Technology and civilization; Science and civilization; Science; Philosophy; Technology; Modern Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gadamer's long twentieth century; title: Science and technology : the real roots of modernity; title: The basic features of our societies : conformism, bureaucracy, and self-alienation; title: Cosmopolitan hermeneutics in the age of the "clash of civilizations"; title: The possibility of global disasters and the fear for the self-destruction of mankind; title: On the problematic character of ethic and aesthetic experiences in the age of science; title: Religious experience in a nihilistic epoch; title: Hermeneutics, techno-science, enlightenment : a complex "constellation"; title: The rehabilitation and universalization of practical knowledge and experience; title: Reasonableness, dialogue, and freedom: ethical-political consequences of hermeneutics.