Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific.

Acknowledgments

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JAMES BUCHANAN AND PETER HERSHOCK

Introduction

1

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1. Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference

VYACHESLAV STIOPIN

Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization

17

(9)

FRANK W. DERRINGH

Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival

26

(20)

SUSANTHA GOONATILAKE

Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition

46

(24)

SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

Islam and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Wordviews

70

(31)

2. Biotechnologies

GLOBALIZING THE CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS

HENK A.M.J. TEN HAVE

Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies

101

(16)

GEORGE KHUSHF

Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic

117

(15)

ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE

Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach

132

(7)

JAPAN: A NATIONAL CASE STUDY

CARL BECKER

Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care

139

(19)

WILLIAM R. LAFLEUR

Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation

158

(18)

BUDDHISM: A CULTURAL CASE STUDY

DAVID R. LOY

Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology

176

(12)

PEIMIN NI

Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology)

188

(21)

3. Technology, Authority, and Dissent

HANS-GEORG MÖLLER

How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media

209

(13)

PAUL B. THOMPSON

Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply

222

(14)

YOKO ARISAKA

Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation

236

(16)

LOIS ANN LORENTZEN

Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador

252

(13)

KRISTIN SHRADER-FRECHETTE

Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl

265

(14)

GHANDIAN PERSPECTIVES

KURUVILLA PANDIKATTU, S.J.

Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion

279

(24)

VASANTHI SRINIVASAN

Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger's Analysis of Technology

303

(16)

4. Food Technologies and Transgenic Species

RAMON SENTMARTi

From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium

319

(22)

MONICA OPOLE

Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation

341

(13)

FRANCESCA BRAY

How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator

354

(31)

5. Technology and the Home

ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI

Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings

385

(15)

DAVID B. WONG

Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering

400

(16)

JOEL J. KUPPERMAN

Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism

416

(17)

6. Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment

JOSEPH MARGOLIS

Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human

433

(15)

HELEN PETROVSKY

Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema

448

(14)

THOMAS P. KASULIS

Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction

462

(16)

ROLF ELBERFELD

Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology

478

(15)

7. Technology, Communication, and Education

MARY TILES

Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values

493

(15)

CHARLES ESS

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism

508

(20)

ANDREW FEENBERG

Online Education and the Choices of Modernity

528

(20)

DAVID FARRELL KRELL

The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology

548

(10)

H. JIUAN HENG

The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet

558

(19)

8. Critical Afterword

JAMES P. BUCHANAN

Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation)

577

(10)

PETER D. HERSHOCK

Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness

587

(14)

Contributors

601

(6)

Name Index

607

(4)

Subject Index

611

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