Table of Contents

Introduction The Problems of Technology The Nature of Technology Reflections on Technology On Spirituality Models of Redemption Spirituality and the Material Technology and Education Some Dangers of Spirituality Conclusion Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

Examines how to deal with technology in more humane, spiritual, and constructive ways.

About the Author

IGNACIO L. GÖTZ is Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Teaching Fellow at New College, Hofstra University. Before coming to Hofstra, he taught for many years in India. His books include The Psychedelic Teacher, Creativity: Theoretical and Socio-Cosmic Reflections, Zen and the Art of Teaching, Conceptions of Happiness, The Culture of Sexism (Praeger, 1999), and Manners and Violence (Praeger, 2000).

Reviews

"These meditiations could provide intellectual stimulus to anyone sympathetic to the claim that tools and technological systems and conceptualizations embody spirit....[t]he attention to sources from the thousand years of Western thought between Augustine and Luther will prove intriguing for some readers....For those sharing Gotz's intuition of some Transcendent pulsing through nature and second nature, this volume will point to traditions to study and authors to consult in the search for the meaning of our existence in a technological world."-Technology and Culture

?The book presents a provocative view of technology....General readers; all undergraduate levels.?-Choice

?These meditiations could provide intellectual stimulus to anyone sympathetic to the claim that tools and technological systems and conceptualizations embody spirit....[t]he attention to sources from the thousand years of Western thought between Augustine and Luther will prove intriguing for some readers....For those sharing Gotz's intuition of some Transcendent pulsing through nature and second nature, this volume will point to traditions to study and authors to consult in the search for the meaning of our existence in a technological world.?-Technology and Culture

"The book presents a provocative view of technology....General readers; all undergraduate levels."-Choice