Confronting disaster : an existential approach to technoscience
by Raphael Sassower
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Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps. An urgent commentary in the tradition of show more Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Raphael Sassower's powerful new book is a culmination of many years of research and thought carefully arranged into an extended essay on our contemporary social, cultural, and existential orientation in the modern world. show lessMember Reviews
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Raphael Sassower is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Among his latest publications are Popper's Legacy: Rethinking Politics, Economics, and Science (2006), and with Mary Ann Cutter, Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine (2007). He frequently writes on business and related matters for newspapers.
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