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1. 1. Holding On To Reality

   

   A philosophical critique of modern technology arguing that the pervasive “device paradigm” reduces rich, engaged practices to readily available commodities, eroding attention, social bonds, and meaningful experience; the book contrasts this instrumental mode with ‘focal things and practices’ that cultivate presence, skill, and communal life, and explores how information, science, and technological design shape our sense of reality and moral responsibility. It defends a renewed emphasis on embodied practices, virtues, and institutional forms that can anchor human agency and sustain a more authentic relation to the world, while offering practical and conceptual resources for resisting totalizing technological enframing.

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2. 2. Power Failure

   Christianity in the Culture of Technology

   

   This book diagnoses how modern technological culture undermines Christian faith and communal life by turning goods and experiences into easily consumed, depersonalized “devices,” privatizing belief and eroding the practices that sustain moral and spiritual formation. Drawing on the device paradigm developed in his earlier work, the author analyzes the social and ethical consequences of ubiquitous power—its tendency to concentrate control, flatten attention, and displace meaningful practices—and shows how this shapes institutions, politics, and personal identity. Rather than retreating, he calls for a proactive Christian response that recovers focal things and practices, cultivates communal habits, and engages technology critically so that faith can inform public life, stewardship, and a renewed moral imagination.

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3. 3. Technology And The Character Of Contemporary Life

   A Philosophical Inquiry

   

   A philosophical critique of modern technology arguing that it reshapes human life by turning rich, skillful activities into convenient, commodified services — a “device paradigm” that conceals the workings of production and severs people from meaningful engagement. The book contrasts this with “focal things and practices” that cultivate presence, skill, and social bonds, and urges recovering such practices to preserve moral attention, community, and the character of a good life.

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4. 4. Crossing The Postmodern Divide

   Contemporary Philosophy in Search of Reality

   

   This book challenges the relativism and linguistic skepticism of postmodern thought, arguing that its insights into language and power cannot replace commitment to reality, truth, and moral responsibility; it critiques the cultural effects of modern technology and commodification while proposing a renewed philosophical realism grounded in concrete practices and communal ways of life, and it offers a constructive path that preserves postmodern sensitivity to difference without surrendering the possibility of genuine knowledge, value, and social reform.

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