Technology and Cultural Values : On the Edge of the Third Millennium

by Hershock, Peter D.; Stepaniants, M. T.; Ames, Roger T.; Stepaniants, Marietta; Ames, Roger T.

• ISBN13: 9780824826475
• ISBN10: 0824826477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
JAMES BUCHANAN AND PETER HERSHOCK
Introduction	1	(16)
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