Holding On To Reality by Albert Borgmann
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.
- Published
- 1999
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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