Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability - Softcover

Davison, Aidan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791449807 ISBN 13: 9780791449806

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Argues that sustainability requires more than economic and technological efficiency.

This transdisciplinary inquiry presents a new way of thinking about sustainability and technology that takes us beyond the familiar preoccupation with ecoefficiency, and toward the contested moral question of what most nourishes our ability to care for our world. In contrast to the technocratic aim of controlling a perilous future, the author proposes that we develop the practical craft of sustenance. Beginning with debates in environmental policy, he draws upon recent philosophical interest in ecology, technology, and moral experience to argue that the challenge of sustainability is that of undermining those traditions that present technology as somehow external to our inherent moral ambiguity. This discussion responds to the work of Langdon Winner, Albert Borgmann, Charles Taylor, Martin Heidegger, David Abram, and others.

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About the Author

Aidan Davison is Lecturer in Sustainability Studies at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He has degrees in biochemistry, science and technology policy, and environmental philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791449807
• ISBN 13: 9780791449806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294