Spirits in the material world : the challenge of technology Gilbert G. Germain

By:

Germain, Gilbert G

Language: English Publication details: Lanham Lexington Books 2009Description: xxiii, 217 pages 24 cmISBN:

9780739133682

Subject(s):

Materialism

DDC classification:

128 GER

Summary: "In Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology, Gil Germain provocatively argues that humans are fast becoming spirit-like creatures, beings who assume their bodies are incidental to what it means to be human, and the 'real world' an accidental quality of the human condition. Technology, it is suggested, authorizes such an understanding and legitimates a manner of action that obscures the centrality of embodiment.

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"In Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology, Gil Germain provocatively argues that humans are fast becoming spirit-like creatures, beings who assume their bodies are incidental to what it means to be human, and the 'real world' an accidental quality of the human condition. Technology, it is suggested, authorizes such an understanding and legitimates a manner of action that obscures the centrality of embodiment.

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