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Confronts globalization and technology from philosophical perspectives.
Rather than focusing on political, economic, or social manifestations of technology and globalization, this book examines these related phenomena from a philosophical perspective. Prominent thinkers from philosophy, sociology, and political science reflect on a variety of important topics and individuals, including the Internet, citizenship, individuality, the human condition, spirituality, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojève, and Strauss. The contributors ask whether political community and citizenship are still possible in an age of technology and globalization, and what it means to be human in a globalized technological society.
Introduction
David Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski
Part I: Community
1. Democracy in the Age of Globalization
Waller R. Newell
2. Communication versus Obligation: The Moral Status of Virtual Community
Darin Barney
3. Technology and the Great Refusal: The Information Age and Critical Social Theory
Bernardo Alexander Attias
4. On Globalization, Technology, and the New Justice
Tom Darby
5. What Globalization Do We Want?
Don Ihde
6. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
Andrew Feenberg
Part II: Humanity
7. The Problem with "The Problem of Technology"
Arthur M. Melzer
8. Global Technology and the Promise of Control
Trish Glazebrook
9. The Human Condition in the Age of Technology
Gilbert Germain
10. Technology and the Ground of Humanist Ethics
Ian Angus
11. Recomposing the Soul: Nietzsche's Soulcraft
Horst Hutter
12. Globalization, Technology, and the Authority of Philosophy
Charlotte Thomas
13. Persons in a Technological Universe
Donald Phillip Verene
Contributors
Index