Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity

Technology Time and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus theidea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. LorenzoSimpson... » 

Technology Time and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus theidea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. LorenzoSimpson arguest that technology has succeeded in granting our wish todomesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of themeaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.Simpson addresses the question of the price exacted by modernity in itsscientific and technological guises at the same time he examines a number ofcritical responses that take measure of our modern or arguably postmoderncondition. The book thus poses the question of technology in the context of arange of philosophical issues and themes from hermeneutics and critical theoryto neopragmatism the rationality debates narrative theory andpostmodernism.Simpsons main aim is to elaborate a critique of technological rationality thatdoes justice to our contemporary situation. In the course of this he examinesphilosophical nihilism and the affinities between postmodern sensibilities andthe technological attitude toward the worldillustrated by a discussion ofVirtual Reality technologyas well as providing critical discussions of thework of Rorty Habermas and MacIntyre. «