Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience

SASSOWER, Raphael

ISBN 10: 0415911095 / ISBN 13: 9780415911092

Published by Routledge, London/New York, 1995

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Hardcover, no jacket. Very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience
• Publisher: Routledge, London/New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415911095
• ISBN 13: 9780415911092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Culture/Civilization/Society

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Synopsis

In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and not simply upon their scientific feasibility, Sassower illuminates the cultural context of postmodern technoscience vis-a-vis an examination of postmodernism and the philosophy of late 20th century science.

About the Author

Raphael Sassower is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of Knowledge WithoutExpertise, Narrative Experiments, and co-editor of Prescriptions.