{"product_id":"our-war-on-ourselves-9781442644380","title":"Our War on Ourselves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWillem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes.\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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408366575959,"sku":"9781442644380","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644380.jpg?v=1730502635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-war-on-ourselves-9781442644380","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}