{"product_id":"our-war-on-ourselves-9781442612617","title":"Our War on Ourselves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena make significant contributions (as in the biological and cultural spheres). As a result, our civilization succeeds in its scientific and technical endeavours yet fails in dealing with communities and ecosystems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing his groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eLabyrinth of Technology\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLiving in the Labyrinth of Technology\u003c\/em\u003e, Willem H. Vanderburg's \u003cem\u003eOur War on Ourselves\u003c\/em\u003e explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes. The work also illuminates how we can achieve a more balanced, livable, and sustainable future by combining technical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS      Preface    Introduction     A CIVILIZATION OF NON-SENSE? Failure to Connect the Dots?    Science as Biased Knowing    Technology as Biased Doing    Opposing Biases   Some Consequences   Where Do We Go From Here?   How We Shall Proceed  Chapter 1   SYMBOLIZATION: GETTING IN TOUCH WITH OURSELVES AND THE WORLD      Living a Life   Babies Getting in Touch with Themselves and the World        Words as Signs   Language and Order   The Self and Cultural Order    The True and the Real   Myths and the True   The True, the Other, and Myself    Chapter 2   DESYMBOLIZATION: LOSING TOUCH WITH OURSELVES AND THE WORLD     Undermining Symbolization    Television as an Introduction to What Is Real       Computers as the Playground of What Is Real        High School Science as the Imagination of What Is Real       The Emerging Order of What Is Real    Chapter 3 COLLIDING ORDERS AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE REAL     Re-engineering a Symbolic Species   The Emerging Technological Order   A Growing Dependence on Matter and Energy       The Emerging Economic Order   Desymbolizing the Cultural Order   Making the Collision Liveable    Chapter 4   THE TRIUMPH OF THE TECHNICAL ORDER OVER CULTURAL ORDERS     Symbolization and Traditions   Desymbolization and Tradition-Based Knowing and Doing       Rationality within Culture   Technique within Culture   The Economy within the Technical Order   Possessed by New Myths   The University as a Bridgehead?   Chapter 5  DESYMBOLIZATION AND RESYMBOLIZATION Is Resymbolization Possible?  A Starting Point     Resymbolizing Economics  Resymbolizing the Social Sciences  Resymbolizing Engineering   Resymbolizing Management  Resymbolizing Medicine  Resymbolizing Legal Education  Community Colleges   Epilogue: Power and Non-power    Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408349995351,"sku":"9781442612617","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442612617.jpg?v=1730502547","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-war-on-ourselves-9781442612617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}