{"product_id":"technics-and-time-1-9780804730419","title":"Technics and Time 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning. Philosophy was for the first ti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslators' note  General introduction  Part I. The Invention of the Human: Introduction: 1. Theories of technical evolution  2. Technology and anthropology  3. Who? What? The invention of the human  Part II. The Fault of Epimetheus: Introduction: 1. Prometheus's liver  2. Already there  3. The disengagement of the what  Notes  Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865941094743,"sku":"9780804730419","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804730419.jpg?v=1722276295","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/technics-and-time-1-9780804730419","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}