Hand's End

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ISBN: 9780520080553 | 0520080556
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/1995

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Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature--the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan.

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Preface: Latent Language
Unexpected Guile
Knowing through Making	p. 1
Stir and Thrill	p. 9
The Circle of Intent and Result	p. 14
The Intention Moves	p. 19
Relocating Infinity?	p. 24
Extension's Order	p. 28
Extensions of Action	p. 31
Extensions of Thought	p. 34
The Test	p. 43
The Humanity Which Remains	p. 46
Nature as Context	p. 54
Aristotle Swims in Nature's River	p. 56
Spinoza Sees End in Beginning	p. 59
Bacon Turns Nature to Resource	p. 66
Marx in So Many Mirrors	p. 73
Heidegger Frames the Earth's Picture	p. 79
The Myth and the Message	p. 86
Artifice Diverts Nature in Time	p. 105
Nature Is Made	p. 108
Hands on the Lathe of Heaven	p. 111
To Tear the Day to Shreds	p. 115
Engines, Fuel for the Mind	p. 122
The Machine Stops	p. 128
Intricacy Looks at Silence	p. 133
Viewing the Virtual	p. 152
Before the End	p. 162
Tools Unlovely to See	p. 165
Reticent Destroyers	p. 169
Between Utopia and Oblivion	p. 175
Unwanted Heat	p. 180
The Safety of Distance	p. 186
Home and the World	p. 192
The Tunnel under the Waterfall	p. 194
Released to the Earth	p. 195
The Pull of Opposites	p. 199
Slicing the Strawberry	p. 207
Blindness and Insight	p. 210
Expression in Constraint	p. 216
Humanity Extended	p. 219
Notes	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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