Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature

by David Rothenberg

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.

Genres: Philosophy, Technology

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

David Rothenberg is a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research investigates the musicality of animals and the role of nature in philosophy. He received his BA from Harvard College in 1984 and his PhD from Boston University in 1991.

Reviews

[Joss]

Couldn't get into it. Too philosophical. Not steep in the here and now enough for me.