TY - BOOK AU - Germain, Gilbert G. TI - Spirits in the material world : the challenge of technology SN - 9780739133682 U1 - 128 PY - 2009/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Materialism N1 - index N2 - "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. ER -