Technics and Transcendence
On the Relationship of Technics, Religion and Society
by Katharina Neumeister / Peggy Renger-Berka / Christian Schwarke
Description
Technics is viewed as a critical motor to the disenchantment, as it competes with a religious interpretation and practice of the world. Especially in public debates modern technics falls back to promises of salvation und utopia to advertise for itself. Thus technics and transcendence lies closer together than presumed. Furthermore technics aims at making the impossible possible. At the same time it creates new impossibilities, concerning control and application. The contributions to this work address the relationship of technics and transcendence in theoretical and practical interdisciplinary examples.
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Author Biography
Katharina Neumeister, M.A. und Peggy Renger-Berka, M.A. are members of the special research field "transcendence and public spirit" at the technical university of Dresden. Prof. Dr. Schwarke teaches theology and the technical university of Dresden.
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- Publisher W. Kolhammer GmbH
- Publication Date January 2012
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 24.90 EUR
- Pages208
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionFirst edition
- Dimensions23,2 x 15,5 cm
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